Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . , is given for the mortar-laid shingles onthe roof. Unfortunately for the story, how-ever, there are facts to show us that the rela-tion between Eleazer Arnold and his red-men neighbours were most unusuallyfriendly. Within the tavern when he diedwas an old bed the Indians used to lieon! For its time Justice Arnolds tavern wasunusually spacious. It had four rooms onthe lower floor and on the second floor weretwo chambers one of which contained a fire-place. The living-
Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . , is given for the mortar-laid shingles onthe roof. Unfortunately for the story, how-ever, there are facts to show us that the rela-tion between Eleazer Arnold and his red-men neighbours were most unusuallyfriendly. Within the tavern when he diedwas an old bed the Indians used to lieon! For its time Justice Arnolds tavern wasunusually spacious. It had four rooms onthe lower floor and on the second floor weretwo chambers one of which contained a fire-place. The living-room was large and com-modious with its huge fireplace, the great summer beam upon which the guns werewont to be placed, and over the fireplace astrong eye-bolt to which could be attached ablock and tackle to aid in hauling great logsto the fire. Mantelpieces, as one carefulstudent of colonial days has pointed out,were no part of the interior furnishings ofreally old houses. ^ Whatever was arrangedabout the walls was hung on long hooksmade of natural branches, fitted accordingto the ingenuity of the owner. The date of 142. ELEAZER ARNOLD TAVERN, NEAR QUINSNICKET, LINCOLN
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