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{{quote|''And then she went on and on till she came to a great house.
"Do you want a maid?" says she.
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So she stayed there and washed the pots and scraped the saucepans and did all the dirty work.''|'''[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/caporushes.html Cap O'Rushes]'''}}
Your less-developed fantasy worlds will contain no castle underlings save guards and kitchen staff. The guards lead a sad existence as [[Red Shirt
If she's in for infiltration, scullery [[
If she's simply hiding out, believe me, no one suspects that [[The Chosen One]] [[Cinderella Circumstances|is sweating over boiling potatoes]].
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* "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/kingdaughter.html The King Who Wished Marry To His Daughter]"
{{quote|''"If I could get," said she, "leave to go to service to this great house yonder." "They want none," said the herd, "unless they want one under the hand of the cook." The herd went to speak for her, and she went as a servant maid under the hand of the cook.''}}
* In "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/crane/storycatherine.html Catherine and Her Fate]", Catherine, having chosen to be miserable in youth and happy in old age rather than the other way round, ends up as a
* There is a class of [[Fairy Tale|fairy tales]], related to "[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]", in which a princess is forced to flee her homeland and hides out as a scullery maid in the royal castle of another kingdom (and then the prince of that kingdom holds a ball in order to meet eligible young women, and so on). The episode "Sapsorrow" of ''[[The Storyteller (TV series)|The Storyteller]]'' is adapted from one of these.
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* In ''[[The Chinese Maze Murders]]'', Dee plants a spy in one household by sending her to get a job as a temporary maid.
* [[Discworld|Nanny Ogg]] uses this as a highly successful infiltration technique. She's at home around people; knows their names, their family trees and everyone's maladies after about half an hour, and knows that nobody ever questions a little old lady being helpful, because it's a job you don't have to do and nobody cares if she doesn't get paid.
** [[Discworld/Equal Rites|Esk]] uses the classic
* Lalasa in the ''Protector Of The Small'' series (by Tamora Pierce) started as a
* [[Ella Enchanted]] has the title character assume this position in her own home after her obedience curse is discovered by her stepsisters. The job is given by none other than Ella's own {{spoiler|fairy}} godmother, who works as a cook for the family and pretends indifference towards her godchild in order to protect her from being forced into a much lower position.
* In [[A Little Princess]], Sara Crewe takes this role to pay her headmistress.
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