"There is nothing," averred Dr. Samuel Johnson, "which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern . . ." Last week he found agreement in an interesting quarter.
"I have always regarded a good innkeeper as a real benefactor to the community," wrote the Rev. E. A. Newman, vicar of Hythe in Kent, in his parish paper, "and a well-run inn ... as a useful and necessary amenity. I suppose it is true to say that all through our history the two chief meeting places of the community have been the church...
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