5/21 And I have heard much of the kindness of this country toward strangers." It was not our way in Virginia to allow persons of any breeding to put up at public taverns. I have seen a hundred horses around my father's barns during the Quarterly Meetings of the Society of Friends. Perhaps we did not scrutinize all our guests over-closely, but that was the way of the place. I had no hesitation in saying to Mr.Orme that we should be glad to entertain him at Cowles' Farms. |