course toward Bousch's tavern, where he proposed to
take up his temporary residence.

Since this house has become historical, let us say a word of it. It
was one of those old wooden "ordinaries" of Virginia, which are now
never seen in towns of any size, crouching only on the road-side or in
obscure nooks, where the past lives still. It was a building of large
size, though but two stories in height, and even then presented an
ancient appearance, with its low eaves, small-paned windows, and stone
slab before the door. Behind it was an old garden, and near at hand,
two ponderous valves opened upon a large stable-yard full of bustling
hostlers.

The neighborhood in which this ancient dwelling stood was not without
a certain picturesqueness, thanks to the old, low-eaved houses, dating
from the French-Indian wars, and grassy knolls, from which quarries of
limestone stood out boldly; above all, because of the limpid stream,
which, flowing from the west just by the portico of the old tavern,
murmured gaily in the traveller's ear, and leaped toward him as he
crossed it, or allowed his weary animal to bathe his nostrils in the
cool water. Two or three majestic weeping-willows plunged their broad
trunks and vigorous roots into the clear stream, and sighed forever
over it, as, passing onward, it ran away from the Bousch hostelry
toward its ocean, the Opequon.

This old tavern, which exists still, we believe, a venerable relic
of the border past, was, in the year 1777, the abode of a "number of
Quakers, together with one druggist and a dancing-master, sent
to Winchester under guard, with a request from the Executive of
Pennsylvania, directed to the County-Lieutenant of Frederick, to
secure them." The reasons for this arrest and exile may be found in
a Congressional report upon the subject, (Anno. 1776,) which states,
that well-attested facts "rendered it certain and notorious that those
persons were, with much rancour and bitterness, disaffected to the
American cause;"--for which reason they were requested to go and
remain in durance at Winchester, in Virginia. How they protested at
Philadelphia against being taken into custody--protested again at the
Pennsylvania line against being carried out of that state--protested
again at the Maryland line against being taken into Virginia--and
ended by protesting at Winchester against everything in general--it is
all written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Valley of Virginia,
by Mr