"Or a barmaid," Kitty hinted.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
Her next step was to become barmaid in a tavern.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
Mr. Charles Williams tells me the story, recounted to him by Thackeray, of how, when one wet night they were all at a little oyster-shop then facing the Strand Theatre, the barmaid Jane, thoroughly out of humour at Jerrold's chaff, slapped down before the little man the liquor he had ordered, with the words, "There's your grog and take care you don't drown yourself;" with the effect of damping his spirits for the rest of the night.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann