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Show The Great Bed of Ware. . When Elihu Burritt, the learned American blacksmith, went on his walking tour from London to the Lands End, he turned aside to see the Great Bed of Ware, and might have slept in it, but didn't. This enormous bed is ten feet nine inches square and seven feet six inches hrgh. It is made of Spanish oak, elegantly ele-gantly carved, and is a wonderful specimen spe-cimen of antique furniture that for three centuries has been the pride and glory of the Saracen's Head at Ware. The top is a solid canopy of beautifully beauti-fully carved wood, made in one piece At the base of each footpost are boxes. It was. the custom in old times for a newly arrived guest who had never seen it before to drink a toast to the bed in a can of beer. Twelve persons have slept in it at one time, and it is asserted ;n the old chronicle that twenty twen-ty did so at a pinch. |