. The North Devon coast. ll-knownview of the street showing the New Inn andthe quaint little soldier and sailor mannikins thatserve as windmills on its projecting sign, had Icherished a resolution to stay in the old hostelry ;and it had now at last come to pass. Up narrow,twisting stairs was my bedroom, looking out,through clusters of roses, upon the street ; andbeing thus gratified in the main object, it was asmall matter tliat I breakfasted and dined in thenew building across the way. I shall say nothing of the fare of the NewInn, except tliat it is of the best a typicallyDevonian farm could
. The North Devon coast. ll-knownview of the street showing the New Inn andthe quaint little soldier and sailor mannikins thatserve as windmills on its projecting sign, had Icherished a resolution to stay in the old hostelry ;and it had now at last come to pass. Up narrow,twisting stairs was my bedroom, looking out,through clusters of roses, upon the street ; andbeing thus gratified in the main object, it was asmall matter tliat I breakfasted and dined in thenew building across the way. I shall say nothing of the fare of the NewInn, except tliat it is of the best a typicallyDevonian farm could produce, and what betterwould you or could you, than that ? Botli houses,old and new—the old, with its snug little old-fashioned bar-parlour, as tiny and as full ofcorners and cupboards as a ships cabin, and the THE NEW INN 213 new, with its large dining-room—are full to over-flowing with the most amazing collection ofchina, old brass candlesticks, kettles, pestles andmortars, and all sorts of old-fashioned domestic. UP-ALONG. CLOVELLY. utensils, accumulated in the course of many yearsat auction or private sales. You sit down to tablein that dining-room as though you were diningin a china-shop. Some of the china is old andvaluable, and a good deal is neither the one nor 214 THE NORTH DEVON COAST the other. By the odd decoration of the ceihng,representing the British Union Jack and theU. S. Old Glory in amity, you might suspect—if you did not already know it by the accents offellow-guests^that the bulk of those who seekthe hospitality of the New Inn are citizens ofthe United States ; but that is no reason why aBriton should be guilty of such abject sentimentsas those inscribed between the two flags—not something proud and vain, as the foremostmodern novelist of the servants-hall might say,but something mean and cringing, to the effectthat it is hoped the United States will alwaysremain friendly and not attack the Mother Coun-try. To liow many citizens of the United Stat
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