No attention was paid to my request, and after waiting a long time I found the landlady and asked her if she would have the sheets changed.

She straightened up and said she didn't think the bed would hurt anybody, for only two ministers from Boston had slept in it.

We stayed some days and although it was the height of the season, we were the only guests.

Nothing from the outside world reached us but one newspaper, and that brought the startling news of the death of Adams and Jefferson on the fourth of July, just fifty years after their signing the Declaration of Independence.
The large leghorn bonnet which Mrs.Webster wore on that eventful journey hangs in my collection of old relics.

She told me it used to hit the wheel when she looked out.