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He takes boarders sometimes." But Lowry's did not attract us. An ordinary country-tavern, where stage-passengers took supper, was not what we came so far to find. "Do you know where this house o' Dutton's is?" said the driver, to the man who had once taken either dinner or supper there. "Oh yes! I'd know the house well enough, if I saw it. It's the fust house this side o' Lowry's."
I found it to be a little country-tavern with a barn, forming one house, the barn part much larger than the tavern part. I went into the tavern by a small side-door behind the bar into a parlour up a little stair into two rooms: but no one was there. I then went round into the barn, which was paved with cobble-stones, and there lay a dead mare and foal, some fowls, with two cows.
Entering then through a long, broad passage, midway of which we deposit five sous each with the Cerberus on guard, we pass into a hall crowded with people. The hall is not larger than that of an average country-tavern ball-room in New England: the space occupied by the dancers will accommodate perhaps fifty quadrille sets.
About half a mile on the other side of Shag's Hill there is a hotel, off from the road, looking like an overgrown Swiss châlet. Not a country-tavern by any means.
He takes boarders sometimes." But Lowry's did not attract us. An ordinary country-tavern, where stage-passengers took supper, was not what we came so far to find. "Do you know where this house o' Dutton's is?" said the driver, to the man who had once taken either dinner or supper there. "Oh yes! I'd know the house well enough, if I saw it. It's the fust house this side o' Lowry's."
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