Servant Gifts

"Where's the damn bottle-opener?" "It's his day off, sir."

"Will that be all, sir?"

Belgravian flunkey hiding whilst the mob break his mistress's windows,

Mr. Claypole as he appeared when his master was out

Mary and the fat boy

Servants - The Governess

'The Ambassador will not be pleased, Madame.'

Fat footman has been told he will be dismissed if he doeas not lose weight

Footman and groom talk about the rector's weight in horse terms

"It's Parkins, sir; we're 'aving a bit of a time below stairs."

servants discuss the meaning of a word on a doormat

'Now, then, Thomas, tell your old man to pull on a peg and get me up to my pawnbroker's!

The morning after the cricket supper.

Gentleman wanting to know exactly how much he owes his butler

Domestic Bliss

'You ask her to clean our feet.'

A declaration - man tells a girl that she has stolen his heart.

Page: 'That poor devil ain't mixed much in society!'

Close of the season - The London footman exhausted.

Reduced circumstances.

Master of the house states that he will be detained in the city on business when he learns that there is cold mutton for dinner.

Carrying burdens - Ghetto blaster

Master about to find that the servant boy has let his library fire go out

Flunkey asking for a larger salary and not happy to be compared to a lower order of clergy

Cook makes an unlikely excuse when mistress finds a man visiting her

Servant asking for payment and being denied

Flunkey explaining to housemaid that he is not accustomed to physical exertion

Old housekeeper tells her returning master that she knows the bed is aired because she has been sleeping in it

Lady asks footman to carry her dog as it is tired in the hot weather

'Tell His Majesty we really do need some more ashtrays.'

"Did you ring, Sir?"

"Sir, all I'm saying is that, maybe just this once, we shouldn't discount the possibility that a butler did it."

"I remember when a politician's server meant his maid or butler."

"'Is Lordship 'as just popped to the corner shop for a packet of fags..."

Butler is supporting a hammock.