We have no women except old Bella and the dairymaid at Ashness.

'Wasn't it you and some others who scared our dairymaid into fits one night last winter, by playing pranks, after dark, outside the dairy window?' 'Yes, sir,' said Teddy humbly.

Dairymaids of the ordinary classnot competent to make special cheeseare becoming rarer, on account of the demand for their services decreasingthe milk trade and cheap foreign cheese having rendered common sorts of cheese unprofitable.