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244 CARAVAN DAYSthere is an impression that by the time the touris over her course is run and her usefulnessexhausted : another little namesake must takeher place and claim her peg. And the besttribute that I can pay to her memoryis to recordthe fact, which is without question, that life athome when the tour is over is curiously difficultwithout her.The other members are allvarying degrees.cloths and rags ofThey are the \vipers, the moppers,the sloppers-up. Originally there was onlyone of them the Limit. It was her duty to copewith every form of spill, upset, drip or drain.She was in theory as universal, as undaunted asJessica herself.But the Limit after a while beganto put on airs. I don't quite know how ithappened.She did not complain of milk or oil, butshe began to draw the line at gravy. And at lastshe had her :way she got an underling theLast Straw. Of course she really gained nothingby that, for after a brief, high-class career in herown character, dealing only with her own chosenproducts, she went inevitably down to the secondplace herself, where she had all the rough workand none of the easy jobs. For the titles in thisdepartment must be regarded rather in the lightof roles to be played than of personalities.