DURING a journey t I once made t t er table de, so t I o make a solitary supper from ts ampler board. ted alone in one end of a great gloomy dining-room, and, my repast being over, I before me of a long dull evening, any visible means of enlivening it. I summoned mine and requested someto read; me terary stock of c dozing over one of tter, reading old neale criticisms, my ear ruck s of laugo proceed from tc ravelled on tinent must kno tcry inn is to travellers, particularly in t equivocal kind of oo tco take a peep at t appeared to be so merry. It ly of travellers tendants and ed round a great burnisove, t migaken for an altar at c brigeamed and ea-kettle. A large lamp trong mass of lig many odd features in strong relief. Its yelloially illumined tco remote corners, except ced back from ensils t gleamed from t of obscurity. A strapping Flemiss in suspended to it, ess of temple.
Many of t of tation. I found tes ures; at ts of unceremonious laug temple of true liberty, an inn.
As I ter mode of getting tedious blustering evening, I took my seat near tove, and listened to a variety of travellers tales, some very extravagant and most ver dull.
All of treac one, e. I fear, derived its c from t old, and tor. old Sraveller. arnisravelling-jacket, round , and a pair of overalls tons from to tenance, twinkling eye.
, and curled from under an old green velvet travelling-cap stuck on one side of errupted more ts or tors, and paused noo replenis wimes chen-maid.
I ed tobacco-pipe formed of genuine ecume de mer, decorated assel, of ted tory.