At Any Rate, It Had Not Reached The Houses
Of The Gentlemen With Whom I Had The Pleasure Of Making
Acquaintance.
But here I must guard myself from being
misunderstood.
I saw but one drunken man through all New England,
and he was very respectable. He was, however, so uncommonly drunk
that he might be allowed to count for two or three. The Puritans
of Boston are, of course, simple in their habits and simple in
their expenses. Champagne and canvas-back ducks I found to be the
provisions most in vogue among those who desired to adhere closely
to the manner of their forefathers. Upon the whole, I found the
ways of life which had been brought over in the "Mayflower" from
the stern sects of England, and preserved through the revolutionary
war for liberty, to be very pleasant ways; and I made up my mind
that a Yankee Puritan can be an uncommonly pleasant fellow. I wish
that some of them did not dine so early; for when a man sits down
at half-past two, that keeping up of the after-dinner recreations
till bedtime becomes hard work.
In Boston the houses are very spacious and excellent, and they are
always furnished with those luxuries which it is so difficult to
introduce into an old house. They have hot and cold water pipes
into every room, and baths attached to the bedchambers. It is not
only that comfort is increased by such arrangements, but that much
labor is saved.
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