The cottage cook; or, Mrs. Jones's cheap dishes. Shewing the way to do much good with little money.

Date:: [Between 1805? and 1818?]

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The cottage cook; or, Mrs. Jones's cheap dishes. Shewing the way to do much good with little money. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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COTTAGE COOK, &c. Mrs. JONES was a great merchant’s lady. She was liberal to the poor, but as she was too much taken up with the world, she did not spare so much of’ her time and thoughts about doing good as she ought, so that her money was often ill bestowed. In the late troubles, Mr. Jones, who had lived in a grand manner, failed, and he took his misfortune so much to heart, that he fell sick and died. Mrs. Jones retired on a very narrow in- come to the small village of Weston, where she seldom went out, except to church. Though a pious woman, she was too apt to indulge her sorrow; and though she did not neglect to read and pray, yet she gave up a great part of her time to melancholy thoughts, and grew quite inactive. She well knew how sinful it would be for her to work a cure for her grief in worldly pleasures, which