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Replies to Minor Queries.
"_Service is no Inheritance_" (Vol. viii., p. 587.; Vol. ix., p. 20.).--P.
C. S. S. confesses that he is vulgar enough to take great delight in
Swift's _Directions to Servants_, a taste which he had once the good
fortune of hearing avowed by no less a man than Sir W. Scott himself. G. M.
T., who (Vol. viii., p. 587.) quotes the _Waverley Novels_ for the use of
the phrase "Service is no inheritance," will therefore scarcely be
surprised to find that it occurs frequently in Swift's _Directions_, and
especially in those to the "Housemaid," chap. x. (_quod vide_).