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He died
soon after, and I do not know whether his music was ever heard
again. These taverns were crowded with guests. One principal
route for stages and teams to New Hampshire, Vermont and Canada
passed through Concord.
There were several lines of stages, one from Lowell to Framingham,
and two at least from Boston. The number of passengers, which
now are all carried by rail, was so large that extras were
frequently necessary. The teams were very often more than
the barns of the taverns in the town could accommodate, and
on summer nights the wagons would extend for long distances
along the village street with horses tied behind them.
The sound of the toddy stick was hardly interrupted in the
barroom inside from morning till night. The temperance reform
had not made great headway in my youthful days. It was not
uncommon to see farmers, bearing names highly respected in
the town, lying drunk by the roadside on a summer afternoon,
or staggering along the streets. The unpainted farmhouses
and barns had their broken windows stuffed with old hats or
garments.


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