Item of the Day: Swift’s Rules for Servants (1753)

Full Title:  Miscellanies.  By Dr. Swift.  The Eleventh Volume.  London:  Printed for C. Hitch, C. Davis, C. Bathurst, R. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer.  MDCCLIII.
RULES that concern All Servants in general.
 When your Master or Lady calls a Servant by Name, if that Servant be not in the Way, none of you are to answer, for then there [...]