For my part, I liked a story to begin with an old wayside inn where, "towards the close of the year 17," several gentlemen in three-cocked hats were playing bowls.

Cato made it an instruction to his steward, "that he was not to present any offering, or to allow any offering to be presented on his behalf, without the knowledge and orders of his master, except at the domestic hearth and on the wayside-altar at the Compitalia, and that he should consult no -haruspex-, -hariolus-, or -Chaldaeus-."

A pack of wolves just off the road and to the west at that moment began their devilish concert over some wayside carcassjust at the moment when she came in sight.

At Calmsdena tiny isolated hamlet near North Cerneyis a grey and weather-beaten wayside cross of beautiful Gothic workmanship, erected (men say) by the Knights Templar of Quenington; and there are ancient crosses or remnants of them at Cirencester, Eastleach, Harnhill, Rendcombe, Stow-on-the-Wold, and many other places in the district.

He delivered his address in Cincinnati, started for Columbus, arrived within twelve miles of it, when, at a wayside tavern, he was seized with cholera.