She had a woman to take care of her called Mrs Poole — an able woman in her line, and very trustworthy, but for one fault — a fault common to a deal of them nurses and matrons — she kept a bottle of gin by her, and now and then took a drop over-much.

All diminutized nouns, whatever their original gender, become neuter once they take either of [the] endings [-chen or -lein].

The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.

Also, he probably attends harness races, for he once accidentally left a dope sheet behind.