So, you see, when anyone asks me what I’ll have I say brandy, and take his sixpence, and sip a little cold tea ” “ And so keep sober, and put money in your purse. I understand. Vour ingenuity is ad mirable, and I have no doubt the sixpences mount up by the end of the week. But now tell me something else. Aren’t the hours long, and isn’t the work hard and disagreeable ?” NO OVERWORK. “ Tho hours aren’t short, of course, but one has one’s rest, in the aTCeinooin and line’s 6eea sional day or evening off. A girl, you see, who attracts business ” —this with the least percep tible savour of self-consciousness —“can often manage to gjet an extra day’s holiday by asking the manager. But 1 shouldn’t call the work hard. Drawing beer rather tires your arm at first, hut it’s very little exertion when you-re used to it. And one is hardly over dull. There are so many people to talk to.” “ But I have been told,” I suggested, 44 that customers do not always treat barmaids with the respect which is their due, but sometimes fall into undue familiarities of speech.” BUT SOME AMENITIES. Again the young lady tossed her head. That was in commercial hotels, she said. She didn’t know anything about commercial hotels, and didn’t want to, wherefrom I gathered that at the bar, as in other callings, there aro subtle social gradations of which the world in general is ignorant. Meanwhile I was favoured with a further exposition of the amenities of the pro fession. Gentlemen —particularly gentlemen with money—were so nice and kind to the bar maids. Sometimes they talked to 'them plea santly about the weather ; sometimes they brought them floral offerings ; sometimes they take them up the river, or drive them down to Richmond on Sunday afternoons. “ There are lots of real ladies,” Hebe said, “ who don’t get driven to Richmond as often as I do.” Obviously it would not have been in good taste to allude to "the social conventions which sometimes compel other ladies to take their pleasures more sadly than barmaids. It was my privilege, and also my duty, to listen sympathe tically, and not to criticise. THE DRAWBACK. 44 But there is one disadvantage in being a barmaid,” Hebe continued. 