The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-04-10
TAVERNS.
By Ned Bun,,ine.

Nhe ot my trANSnhk experiences shall not soon forget We stopped on a Saturday night at an Orange county hotel IL hi} been good tavern, WAS told in tha days when genial Frank Forester hunted snipe and woodcock in that vicinity, but city hoarierS invaded the little village amt il b,>camr hotel never travel nn Suuday--it Is day ot rest for me and they soon found thcrc that they were to have me till Monday morning And found out too that there was a A1a6iufu aS we'll aS landlord and that, n a hgurativ" sense she wore the unmentionahleS
 Noul want room with fire spose' she said with speculative eve aS she looked over the wife babe and myself
 should think >o seeing that snow is falling and the thermometer below freezing point was the answer
 krtra. she mutterel as she started oil qrt ill her eve
 Ina little while We were in ten hN twelve room with sheet iron stove iu it about as bis as a hat box. capable ot holding about three small sticks ot wood at time Avery small box nf that was provided
 We had managed Ia wash ina cracked basin, pouring water from a pitcher with the handle missing when cracked hand bell ruug for supper
 We went down to a dark room, lower floor back where long narrow table dimlN lighted, revealed the saa faces al about dozen ar fifteen hoardrr~
 At the center ot this table, so she could shoot oil her eyes aud mouth right amt left and sec how and where things went sat the landlady presiding over thr teapot. milk, sugar and cold meats The tea was the only thing warm at tue table There was no fire m that room it might have made the S,ttcrs finger long at the board it they were comfort able
 Bread th,n a~ niiser- charity. meat in transparent slices beef which had survived from dinner tune u very little butter, some dry cakew hieh should have been labeled Ia be soaked before trial. ten as weak as worldly sympathy for Il fallen woman that made up the meal And hv the aid of all unhappy booking girl in short hair and drcsses--a wali from the poor house, We heard, she served | II out IT itNhS NpNll'i MIL lht iliuIi W h' asked for second slice of anything would have died then and there.
 We suppcd, retired to n bed in which sht,cks took the place oi feathers, and dreamed oi vinegar pickles served on ice
 Morning came" so dld a late break tnst-hash. the remnant ut the beef and weak tincture which had n slight flavor of coffee
 Goin to our meetin, aren't you2 Got a cushioned pew down front fer them aS stops with us
 Visions of another extra induced declinAtion,
 Warm water wae wanted to hathc our infant child and waS called for
 Mi~sis says it's ertrg, saii the short haired glrl with short skirts who brought II
 Do goa ever get anything cNtrai we asked intending to give th" poor waif tritc
 Mis-is takes II away from me if | does she sighed
 Dinner tlinc came late the rules of the house. we were told. were but two meals on sunday Therefor" W" cA pectrd something grand We got It
 Two -lckly looking roast chickens for twenty hungry looking guost- ilankcd l,v boiled potatoc- on one side halt h0ilrd onions or the otlrr
 The andlady carved Every leg and wing war unjointed twice. the hr"art tor, in slender strips-thc back bone carefully divided and quart"r"d --cvrn th" scraggy nccks were halvcd Thus and thus only. could her genius make them 20 around
 But she managed II. and cold spring water washed the dry mursrls tlown Aitcrward cut of pI" about the slze of two of her gaunt fingers faced each m happy guest, and the last meal for the day was over
 Break fast there was nothing left to hash consisted of codiish balls the DO. tatoc- left the night before thus utilized buckwhrat cakes and cheap nolasscs
 had my horses harncsscd before the meal was on the table 1Hep had not suffered Il had seen to them myself as l always do
 Then called for my bill--only SIG ,-,tros included fir" and water Twould have been less at the Grand Central or Fifth Avenue hotel in th" empire city The hortlrr had # dollar it wa. oarn.s! and poor Boots got a half he looked 90 sal though he had done nothing for me. He apoIogized
 the blackin had run out and his brushc- were in the kitchen scrubbin pail
 And ,hi- speak of to show contract The next Sunday l was away down III the lower part of Pennsylvania at the fayern of An honest nhtig" Dutchnan \ large chamber, with 4 fireplace that held fully A quarter of A cord of wood at A time-a glorious heater bed. oi down water hot and cold, free a~ ar a tahl" at every meal and three pf these on sun day, laden with good thing- til there was hardly room 10 lay down knife and fork, all of the best-f.h, fDwl and
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