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hamlet. Yet this is a good inn, clean, and well provided ; we 

 have a large room, comfortably furnished, and the landlord 

 seems to understand what a tired traveller wants ; and down 

 stairs, in the parlour, there is would you ever guess ? It tells 

 its own story thus : 



&quot;IMPKOVED BEASS CLOCK, 



MANUFACTURED BY 

 H. WELTON, TERRYVILLE, CONNECTICUT. 



( Warranted, if well used&quot;) 



It cost twelve shillings, and was a capital time-piece, only 

 lately it had got a-going too fast, and the landlord wished Mr. 

 Wei ton would send his man over and have it fixed according 

 to contract. It marked the hour rather behind our watches, 

 but as it was the liveliest thing in the village, we have set it 

 back to the landlord s notion, lengthened the pendulum, and 

 oiled the &quot; pallet,&quot; all to save the reputation of Mr. Welton 

 and the universal Yankee nation. 



The cottages here are generally built of a chalk grout, 

 sometimes with lines of flint stones for ornament. In others, 

 flint pebbles are laid regularly in tiers set in grout, like the 

 &quot; cobble-stone houses&quot; in western New York ; in others, grout, 

 and stones set in grout, alternately ; or brick and stone in 

 grout, in alternate tiers a foot thick. The village fences and 

 the stock-yard walls about here are also made of white grout, 

 f very thick, and with a coping of thatch. The thatch on the 

 cottages is very heavy, sometimes two feet deep. 



