ACCOMMODATIONS. 81 



Our landlady had lived almost to old age under the shadow of 

 the Church, hi which the story of Zaccheus is every year read 

 aloud, and in which a religious celebration of the Restoration of 

 King Charles is by law performed every 29th of May. But a 

 person of sound faculties, native-born, could not probably be found 

 in New England, whose godless education would not have made 

 impossible such a confusion of religious instruction as had been 

 given her. 



I am writing now in my bed-room. Though the ceiling is low, 

 it is large and well furnished. There are large pitchers of water, 

 foot-bath, and half-a-dozen towels. The bed is very large, clean, 

 and deeply curtained. The landlady has sent me up a glass of 

 her home-brewed beer, with a nightcap, which I noticed she hung 

 by the fire when I left the kitchen. The chambermaid has drawn 

 down the bedclothes, and says, " The bed has been well aired, 

 sir." Good night. 



