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[Illustration: Travel in the South in the Thirties. _Frontispiece._]
Author of _Home Life in Colonial Days_, _Child Life in Colonial Days_, and other Social and Domestic Histories of Colonial Times
"_Long ago, at the end of the route, The stage pulled up, and the folks stepped out. They have all passed under the tavern door-- The youth and his bride and the gray three-score. Their eyes were weary with dust and gleam, The day had gone like an empty dream. Soft may they slumber, and trouble no more For their eager journey, its jolt and roar, In the old coach over the mountain._"
NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1900
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
_Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood, Mass., U.S.A._
XII. Early Stage-coaches and Other Vehicles 253
XIII. Two Stage Veterans of Massachusetts 291
XVII. The Pains of Stage-coach Travel 361
Travel in the South in the Thirties. From painting by Edward Lamson Henry, N.A. _Frontispiece_
Taproom Furnishings of an Old Ordinary. Owned by Miss Elizabeth Nicholson, Providence, R. I. 7
Oldest House in Easton, Mass.; once an Ordinary 10
Tavern Bill against East Church, Salem, Mass. Owned by Essex Institute 16
Taproom of Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Mass. 19
Buckman Tavern, 1690, Lexington, Mass. 23
Sign-board of Hayden Tavern, Essex, Conn. Owned by Connecticut Historical Society 28
Indian Queen Tavern, Bladensburg, Md. From painting by Edward Lamson Henry, N.A. _facing_ 32
Plate, City Hotel, N. Y., Staffordshire Ware 38
Door Latch, Washington Tavern, Westfield, Mass. 45
Wadsworth Inn, Hartford, Conn. Photographed by Mr. George C. Atwell, Hartford, Conn. 47
Taproom, Wadsworth Inn, Hartford, Conn. 51
Sign-board of N. Mowry's Inn, Lime Rock, R. I. Owned by Miss Elizabeth Nicholson, Providence, R. I. 57
Pine-tree Tavern and Eagle Tavern, East Poultney, Vt. 59
Sign-board of Washington Hotel, Salem, Mass. Owned by Essex Institute 63
Sign-board of Hays' Tavern, West Brattleboro, Vt. 65
Travellers' Rest, Shelbyville, Ky., 1783 71