CHAPTER VI.
HOSPITALITIES OF "FRIENDS"-- HARVEST ASPECTS--ENGLISH COUNTRY INNS; THEIR APPEARANCE, NAMES, AND DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS--THE LANDLADY, WAITER, CHAMBERMAID, AND BOOTS--EXTRA FEES AND EXTRA COMFORTS.
I reached Saffron Walden at 4 p.m., notwithstanding my involuntary walk of six extra miles in the morning.

Here I remained over the Sabbath, again enjoying the hospitality of a Friend.

And perhaps I may say it here and now with as much propriety as at any other time and place, that few persons, outside the pale of that society, have more frequently or fully enjoyed that hospitality than myself.

This pleasant experience has covered the space of more than sixteen years.

During this period, with the exception of short intervals, I have been occupied with movements which the Friends in England have always regarded with especial sympathy.