Resting Herself
A LABORER'S daughter, who had been in service from her childhood, would
frequently wish to be married, that, as she expressed herself, she might
rest her bones. Some time afterwards she got married, and her late
mistress meeting her, asked her, Well, Mary, have you rested your bones
yet?--Yes, indeed, replied she, with a sigh, I have rested my
jaw-bones.