Many circumstances conspired to promote familiarity with old domestics, which are now entirely changed.

We take the case of a domestic coming early into service, and passing year after year in the same family.

The servant grows up into old age and confirmed habits when the laird is becoming a man, a husband, father of a family.

The domestic cannot forget the days when his master was a child, riding on his back, applying to him for help in difficulties about his fishing, his rabbits, his pony, his going to school.

All the family know how attached he is; nobody likes to speak harshly to him.