Capitolo 23
from Benjamin Franklin an attractive object should be to also the least one
susceptible electricity. The House of Warner has another mandatory application
on the good-wish of the visitor--it is not known positively that George
Washington ever slept there.
The same affirmation cannot be made on connection with the old yellow
barrackses placed in the angle southwest of Court and the road of Atkinson.
Old famous houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of
you surround destinies. If it is a possible thing, they always put on down
on the most desirable stains. It is over a doubt that Washington slept
not only a night but a lot of nights, under this roof; for this it was
a tavern famous precedent and subsequent to the War of the independence,
and Washington manufactured him his/her head office during his/her visit to Portsmouth
in 1797. When I was a boy I knew an old lady--none of the
old absurd ladies in the newspapers that have all of their faculties
not damaged, but a true old lady whose ninety-nine years were starting
to say on her--who had known very well Washington. You were a girl in
his/her teen-agers when he came to Portsmouth. The President was the brace of
his/her conversation during the last ten years of his/her life that she passed
in the House of Stavers, forced in bed; and I think that those ten years were in a
way shortly made and pleasant to the old gentlewoman from the memory
of a compliment to his/her complexion that never paid probably Washington
to him.
The old hotel--now a very insipid tenement-house--you/he/she was built by John
Tavers, landlord in 1770 that they planted in front of the door a tall
posts from what the signal of the Earl of Halifax dangled. Stavers had
before it held an inn of the same name on Regina, now National Road.
It is a three-history building square, torn and dejected not giving suggestion
of the historical really important associations that gather him around him.
To the duration of his/her erection without doubt it was considered a rather great