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...countryside, he and she would stop for a glass or two of sherry to cap off their Dutch cheese and devilled eggs, talking lightly of picnicking, the newest books, and love. Even in the darker moments that fell to his due, the Vagabond could betake himself to the official inn, as to a sanctuary. "A pint o' bitter, dearie," to the bar maid; and his solace would be there before him, to be taken not in long draughts this time, but in frequent sips, to further whatever consolations philosophy might offer. Even now he is reminded of the darkling lines...
...historian, moreover, will not forget that the House take their architecture from a period when every inn boasted "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for twopence." Even the Greek golden mean could not sober up the great tutor Person. These may be harsh truths, but Harvard can not with impunity appropriate the more outer trappings of Georgian buildings. Every discreet and rebellious panel years to look once more upon the honest revelry of ale. And the shades of the old Moors can not but rise in anger at the aridity of the common rooms which their antique arches crown...
...That clipping you sent me is not altogether true. The Church is only a 'Kryslit'-church. so it is neither new nor beautiful, and the inn doesn't lie right across but a good distance away-but otherwise it is right. The priest who owns the inn [alehouse] is one of our good friends-he married a sister of Builder Andersen's wife. I think it has cost him a great deal of money and he does not seem to be able to make it go, and will be obliged to sell it. He is very...
...know of its existence in the U. S. mainly from publicity given trifling episodes such as the one which occurred last week near Avon, N. Y. State police were advised by agents of the Rochester Humane Society that a cockfight would be held in the cellar of the Canawaugus Inn. When they arrived at the Inn, police found a score of cars, their lights extinguished, parked outside. In the cellar a fairsized crowd was huddled around a tanbark pit, where, in the hard brilliance of electric light, two gamecocks were silently and gracefully tearing each other to pieces. Police arrested...
...cockfight in the Canawaugus Inn last week was unusual only because it was interrupted in a way which cockers are usually clever enough to avoid. Otherwise it greatly resembled hundreds of others held every week all over the U. S. where the sport is illegal in almost every state...