. The old Boston taverns and tavern clubs . he Salutation had a sign of the sort that is said totickle the popular fancy for what is quaint or represented two citizens, with hands extended, bow-ing and scraping to each other in the most approvedfashion. So the North-Enders nicknamed it The TwoPalaverers, by which name it was most commonlyknown. This house, also, was a reminiscence of theSalutation in Newgate Street, London, which was thefavorite haunt of Lamb and Coleridge. The Green Dragon will probably outlive all its con-temporaries in the popular estimation. In the firstplace a
. The old Boston taverns and tavern clubs . he Salutation had a sign of the sort that is said totickle the popular fancy for what is quaint or represented two citizens, with hands extended, bow-ing and scraping to each other in the most approvedfashion. So the North-Enders nicknamed it The TwoPalaverers, by which name it was most commonlyknown. This house, also, was a reminiscence of theSalutation in Newgate Street, London, which was thefavorite haunt of Lamb and Coleridge. The Green Dragon will probably outlive all its con-temporaries in the popular estimation. In the firstplace a mural tablet, with a dragon sculptured in relief,has been set in the wall of the building that now standsupon some part of the old tavern site. It is the onlyone of the old inns to be so distinguished. Its signwas the fabled dragon, in hammered metal, projectingout above the door, and was probably the counterpartof the Green Dragon in Bishopsgate Street, London. As a public house this one goes back to 1712, when IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES. 47. THE GREEN DRAGON. Eichard PuUen kept it; and we also find it noticed, in1715, as a place for entering horses to be run for apiece of plate of the value of twenty-five pounds. Inpassing, we may as well mention the fact that EevereBeach was the favorite race-ground of that day. Thehouse was well situated for intercepting travel to andfrom the northern counties. To resume the historical connection between the Sahi-tation and Green Dragon, its worthy successor, it appearsthat Dr. Warren continued to be the commanding figureafter the change of location; and, if he was not alreadythe popular idol, he certainly came little short of it, foreverything pointed to him as the coming leader whomthe exigency should raise up. Samuel Adams waspopular in a different way. He was cool, far-sighted,and persistent, but he certainly lacked the magneticquality. Warren was much younger, far more impetu-ous and aggressive, — in short, he possessed all the morebril
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