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we proceeded further. We soon, however, were able to guess very 

 well the character of a house by its outside appearauce, and could 

 regulate our disbursements with great exactness. 



Inns. The great difference between the large &quot;first-class&quot; inns and 

 the second and third class is, that in the latter the lodgers are so few 

 that one or two servants can take the place of three or four at the 

 former. Frequently the landlord may be porter and Boots, (and will 

 act as commissionaire or cicerone ;) the mistress, cook ; and their 

 daughter, waiter and chambermaid, &amp;lt;fec. In such cases, generally, no 

 servants fees at all are expected, and at most a third or half of what is 

 honestly due the servants of the stylish inn will be satisfactory. The 

 small inns are really often more comfortable to the pedestrian than the 

 large ones ; because he can be more at his ease ; need not care how he 

 appears ; can wheel the sofa up to the fire or open all the windows ; 

 dine in his slippers, and smoke, if he likes, in the parlour : take com 

 mand of the house, in short ; see for himself that his shoes are greased 

 and his linen washed and drying, his knapsack-straps repaired, lost 

 buttons replaced, and all his rig a-taunto for an early start without 

 delays in the morning. 



If you call for any thing for your table that the house is not provided 

 with, it will be at once procured from the shops ; the cooking is gen 

 erally good, and the bread always fine. We usuall3 T contented ourselves 

 with one hot meal in a day. Two of us were without the habit of 

 drinking tea or coffee, and would often make our breakfast of bread 

 and milk ; lunch on bread and cheese and beer, and take a substantial 

 meal at the end of our day s walk. We thought we walked better 

 with this arrangement than any other. 



For less than seventy cents a-day it is possible to travel in England 

 without hardship or injury to health. For how much less I cannot say. 

 I once stopped alone at a house where I dined with the family on boiled 

 bacon and potatoes and a bag-pudding, for which I was charged six 

 pence ; breakfasted on scalded milk and bread for twopence ; and was 

 asked sixpence in advance for lodging. I had a good, clean bed and 

 washing conveniences in my room. Add to this twopence for tea, and 

 the clay s living is 33 cents. This was in the north of England, and was 

 extraordinary. The usual charge for lodging is a shilling, sometimes 

 ninepence, and sometimes only sixpence. At the first-class inns they 

 will make you pay well in one way or another. Where we did not dine 

 we have been charged threepence each for the use of the public room, 



