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Show Among tho recent "Wants" in lho London Times is lho following: Wanted, a servant girl; ono Who fears tho Lord and can carry onoewt. This standard ol piely is not up to what was required in tho lust century. Tho following copy of a band-bill circulated cir-culated in Peterborough. England, in 178-1, will show what were tho requisites requis-ites of that pre-Muudy-Sankoy ago. Wanted, for a nober family, a man of light weight, who feara lho Lord and can drive a pair of horHCs. Ho must occasionally wait at table, join ih household pnijcr, look after tho horsra, and read a chapter in tho Bible?. Ho must, God willing, riso at 7 o'clock iu tho morning, and obey his nuiHler and mistress in all lawful commands. If lie can drcwi hair, sing psalniH, and play at cribbagn, lho more agreeable N. H.Ho must not bo too familiar with tho maid servants of tho house, lest the flesh should rebel against tho spirit, and bo induced (o work in tbo thorny paths of wicked. Wugca, fifteen guineas a year. |