Show good old english custom there was an old fashioned custom on the english road which I 1 s suspect u s peet Is now obsolete or practiced on only 1 y by the vulgar journeys ot of length being made on horseback and of course by brief stages it was usual always to make a halt on the sunday in some town where abere the traveler might attend divine service and his horse have the benefit of the day of rest the institution of which Is as humane to our brute laborers as profitable table to ourselves A counterpart to this decent practice and a remnant of old english hospitality was that the landlord of a principal inn laid aside his character of EL a pub publican lian on the seventh day and invited the bucs ts who cann chanced ed to be 1 within his walls to take a part of his family beef and pudding this invitation was usually complied with by ill all whose distinguished rank did not induce them to think compliance a derogation and the proposal of a bottle of wine after dinner to drink the landl lords health was vas the only recompense ever offered or accepted sir walter scott |