. Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs . rt or Copley may have painted some of them. Westonce offered five hundred dollars for a red lion he hadpainted for a tavern sign. Not a few boards displayed a good deal of ingenuityand mother-wit, which was not without its effect, espe-cially upon thirsty Jack, who could hardly be expectedto resist such an appeal as this one of the ^hip inDistress: <( With sorrows I am compassd round;Pray lend a hand, my ships aground. We hear of another signboard hanging out at theextreme South End of the town, on which was depicteda globe with a man breaking through
. Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs . rt or Copley may have painted some of them. Westonce offered five hundred dollars for a red lion he hadpainted for a tavern sign. Not a few boards displayed a good deal of ingenuityand mother-wit, which was not without its effect, espe-cially upon thirsty Jack, who could hardly be expectedto resist such an appeal as this one of the ^hip inDistress: <( With sorrows I am compassd round;Pray lend a hand, my ships aground. We hear of another signboard hanging out at theextreme South End of the town, on which was depicteda globe with a man breaking through the crust, like a /. 54 OLD BOSTON TAVERNS. chicken from its shell. The mans nakedness was supposed to betoken extreme poverty. So much for the sign itself. The story goes thatearly one morning a continental regiment was haltedin front of the tavern, after having just made a forcedmarch from Providence. The men were broken downwith fatigue, bespattered with mud, famishing from hun-ger. One of these veterans doubtless echoed the senti-. HOW SHALL I GET THROUGH THIS WORLD? ments of all the rest when he shouted out to the manon the sign, List, darn ye! List, and youll get throughthis world fast enough! In time of war the taverns we e favorite recruiting ren-dezvous. Those at the waterside were conveniently sit-uated for picking up men from among the idlers whofrequented the tap-rooms. Under date of 1745, when wewere at war with France, bills were posted in the towngiving notice to all concerned that, All gentlemen sailorsand others, who are minded to go on a cruise off of SIGNBOARD HUMOR. 55 Cape Breton, on board the brigantine ffavjJc, CaptainPhilip Bass commander, mounting fourteen carriage, andtwenty swivel guns, going in consort with the brigan-tine Ranger, Captain Edward Fryer commander, of thelike force, to intercept the East India, South Sea, andother ships bound to Cape Breton, let them repair tothe Widow Grays at the Crown Tavern, at the head ofClarks Wharf, to go with C
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