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Title: Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932
Subjects: Hotels
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ld New England Inns there was established the following price-list of charges at this Sudbury tavern: Mug best India flip . . , .15 New England do , ... 12Toddy in proportion A good dinner 20 Best supper and breakfast. . 15 each Common do 12 Lodging ....... 4 The nature of the entertainment for whichthese modest prices were asked may begathered from this description written byPresident Dwight of Yale early in thenineteenth century: The best old-fash-ioned New England inns were superior toany of the modern ones which I have seen.The variety was ample and the food wasalways of the best quality. The beds wereexcellent; the house and all its appendageswere in the highest degree clean and neat;the cookery was remarkably good; and thestable was not less hospitable than the house.The family, in the meantime, were possessedof principle, and received you with the kind-ness and attention of friends. Your baggagewas as safe as in your own house. If youwere sick you were nursed and befriended 196
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The IVayside Inn as in your own family. No tavern-haunters,gamblers or loungers were admitted anymore than in a well-ordered private habita-tion; and as little noise was allowed. . . .In a word you found in these inns the pleas-ures of an excellent private house. To finishthe story, your bills were always equitable,calculated on what you ought to pay, andnot upon the scheme of getting the mostwhich extortion might think proper to de-mand. Yet the tap-room was an important partof every taverns equipment and that of theInn in Sudbury was, and is, one of the mostinteresting apartments in the whole house.In one corner, over the bar, is the woodenportcullis raised or lowered according to thedemand for liquid refreshment and we maystill see here the ancient floor worn by thefeet of hundreds of good fellows now goneto their long home; overhead are heavy oaktimbers dating back to the days when flipreigned instead of cocktails. Upstairs youare shown the travellers rooms which peo-ple of no par

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