The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3)

part in these scenes was Ann Robinson, aged about twenty years, who had

lived servant with Mrs. Golding but one week and three days. The “astonishing transactions” in Mrs. Golding’s house were these:

On Twelfth-day 1772, about ten o’clock in the forenoon, as Mrs. Golding was in her parlour, she heard the china and glasses in the back kitchen tumble down and break; her maid cam...