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DOINGS AT AN INN.
What every traveller sighs to find, was palatably furnished by the Green Dragon of Fallowfield--a famous inn, and a constellation for wandering coachmen.

There pleasant smiles seasoned plenty, and the bill was gilded in a manner unknown to our days.

Whoso drank of the ale of the Green Dragon kept in his memory a place apart for it.

The secret, that to give a warm welcome is the breath of life to an inn, was one the Green Dragon boasted, even then, not to share with many Red Lions, or Cocks of the Morning, or Kings' Heads, or other fabulous monsters; and as if to show that when you are in the right track you are sure to be seconded, there was a friend of the Green Dragon, who, on a particular night of the year, caused its renown to enlarge to the dimensions of a miracle.