Show good old english Cu custom storn there was an old fashioned custom on the english road which I 1 suspect la Is now obsolete or practiced only by the vulgar journeys ot of length being made on horseback and of 0 course by brief stages it was usual always to make a halt on the sunday in some town where the thet i traveler might attend divine service and his horse have tho the benefit of the day of rest the institution of which la Is as humane thour to our bruto brute laborers as profitable to ourselves A counterpart to this docent decent practice and a remnant of old english hospitality was that the landlord of a principal inn laid aside his bin character of a publican on the seventh day and invited the guests who chanced to bo within hla his walls to take a part of hit his family beet beef and pudding this invitation was usually complied compiled with by 11 whose distinguished rank did not induce them to think derogation and the proposal of a bottle of wine after dinner to drink the landlords health was wa the only recompense ever offered or accepted sir walter scott lassei las ssi y |