Chapter 17 THE TWO PUBLIC HOUSES

1. The Alehouse.

Judged by no o'er-zealous rigour

Much this mystic throng expresses;

Bacchus was the type of vigour

And Silenus of excesses.

Longfellow: "Drinking Song."

Whatever you may think about it you cannot travel from Charing Cross to Dijon through the hop-fields of Kent to the vineyards of the C?te-d'Or without admitting t