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A housemaid.
“Highly disgusted at a farthing candle.
Left by the Lady of the Broom,
Named Susan …”
Peter Pindar: The Diamond Pin.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.