Judgin' from what I hear of that tavern it'll be wuth experiencin'; and--and somethin' may come of that, too." She would not explain further, and Emily, knowing her well, did not press the point.
Hannah Parker protested volubly when her "company" declared its intention of going to the East Wellmouth Hotel.
"Of course you shan't do no such thing," she declared.

"The idea! It's no trouble at all to have you, and that hotel really ain't fit for such folks as you to stay at.

Mrs.Bacon, from Boston, stayed there one night in November and she pretty nigh famished with the cold, to say nothin' of havin' to eat huckleberry preserves for supper two nights runnin'.
Course they had plenty of other things in the closet, but they'd opened a jar of huckleberries, so they had to be et up afore they spiled.
That's the way they run THAT hotel.

And Mrs.Bacon is eastern Massachusetts delegate from the State Grange.

She's Grand Excited Matron.