. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. .^%_ 20 o en5. ^_T. o CONTINENTAL CONGRESvS AT YORK. 541 fortable but the eveng was windy and exceedingly cold. The room in which wesat and lodged admitted the cold air at a thousand chinks, and our narrow bedhad on it only a thin rug and one sheet. We went to bed almost completelydressed, but even that would not do. It was so cold that I could not sleep.
. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. .^%_ 20 o en5. ^_T. o CONTINENTAL CONGRESvS AT YORK. 541 fortable but the eveng was windy and exceedingly cold. The room in which wesat and lodged admitted the cold air at a thousand chinks, and our narrow bedhad on it only a thin rug and one sheet. We went to bed almost completelydressed, but even that would not do. It was so cold that I could not sleep. Whatwould I not have given to have been by my fire-side. I wished a thousand timesthat the Old-Fellow had our landlady. Our fellow lodgers suffered as much as wedid, and if they had read Tristam Shandys chapter of curses, and had rememberedit they would have cursed her through his whole catalogue of curses. What addedto the infamousness of this tavern was the extreme squalidity of the room, beds,and every utensil. 1 will conclude my stor) of this Sink of Filth and Abominationwith a circumstance which, while it shows that our dirty landlady had some ideaof neatness, must excite a contemptuous smile. The table on which we were tobreakfast was so inex
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