. Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs. ises and coaches of the kind seenin Hogarths realistic pictures of London life. To theseshould be added the chimney-sweeps, wood-sawyers,market-women, soldiers, and sailors, who are now quiteas much out of date as the vehicles themselves being no sidewalks, the narrow footway was pro-tected, here and there, sometimes by posts, sometimes byan old cannon set upright at the corners, so that thetraveller dismounted from his horse or alighted fromcoach or chaise at the very threshold. Next in the order of antiquity, as well as fame, tothe taverns alr
. Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs. ises and coaches of the kind seenin Hogarths realistic pictures of London life. To theseshould be added the chimney-sweeps, wood-sawyers,market-women, soldiers, and sailors, who are now quiteas much out of date as the vehicles themselves being no sidewalks, the narrow footway was pro-tected, here and there, sometimes by posts, sometimes byan old cannon set upright at the corners, so that thetraveller dismounted from his horse or alighted fromcoach or chaise at the very threshold. Next in the order of antiquity, as well as fame, tothe taverns already named, comes the Bunch of Grapesin King, now State Street. The plain three-story stonebuilding situated at the upper corner of Kilby Streetstands where the once celebrated tavern did. Threegilded clusters of grapes dangled temptingly over thedoor before the eye of the passer-by. Apart from its 34 OLD BOSTON TAVERNS. palate-tickling suggestions, a pleasant aroma of antiquitysurrounds this symbol, so dear to all devotees of Bacchus. THE BUNCH OF GRAPES. from immemorial time. In Pleasure for Measure theclown says, Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where in-deed you have a delight to sit, have you not ? AndFroth answers, I have so, because it is an open roomand good for winter. This house goes back to the year 1712, when FrancisHolmes kept it, and perhaps further still, though we donot meet with it under this title before Holmess that time, until after the Eevolution, it appears tohave always been open as a public inn, and, as such, isfeelingly referred to by one old traveller as the bestpunch-house to be found in all Boston. When the line came to be drawn between conditionalloyalty, and loyalty at any rate, the Bunch of Grapesbecame the resort of the High Whigs, who made it asort of political headquarters, in which patriotism onlypassed current, and it was known as the Whig tavern- IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES. 35 With military occupation and bayonet rule, still furtherintensi
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