. Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs . ly indeed; there is nothing to besaid on that point, Molyneux replied. Once more, continued Otis, holding down his headbefore Molyneux, look upon this head! (there wasa deep, half-closed scar, in which a man might lay hisfinger)—and, what is worse my friends think I havea monstrous crack in my skull. This made all the company look grave, and had thedesired effect ot making Molyneux. who was really agood companion, heartily ashamed of his childish com-plaints. Another old inn of assured celebrity was the Crom-wells Head,, in School Street. This was a two-
. Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs . ly indeed; there is nothing to besaid on that point, Molyneux replied. Once more, continued Otis, holding down his headbefore Molyneux, look upon this head! (there wasa deep, half-closed scar, in which a man might lay hisfinger)—and, what is worse my friends think I havea monstrous crack in my skull. This made all the company look grave, and had thedesired effect ot making Molyneux. who was really agood companion, heartily ashamed of his childish com-plaints. Another old inn of assured celebrity was the Crom-wells Head,, in School Street. This was a two-storywooden building of venerable appearance, conspicuouslydisplaying over the footway a grim Likeness of theLord Protector, it is said much to the disgust of theultra royalists, who, rather than pass underneath it,habitually took the other side of the way. Indeed,some of the hot-headed Tories were for serving Crom-wells Head as that man of might had served theirmartyr kings. So, when the town came under martial u OLD BOSTON law, mine host Brackett, whose family kept the housefor half a century or more, had to take down his sign,and conceal it until such time as the British hire-lings should have made their inglorious exit from thetown. After Braddocks crushing defeat in the West, a youngVirginian colonel, named George Washington, was sentby Governor Dinwiddle to confer with Governor Shirley,who was the great war governor of his day, as Andrewwas of our own, with the difference that Shirley thenhad the general direction of military affairs, from theOhio to the St. Lawrence, pretty much in his ownhands. Colonel Washington took up his quarters atBracketts, little imagining, perhaps, that twenty yearslater he would enter Boston at the head of a victoriousrepublican army, after having quartered his troops inGovernor Shirleys splendid mansion. Major-General the Marquis Chastellux, of Eocham- IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES. 45 beaus auxiliary army, also lodged at the CromwelVsHea
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