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Identifier: touristsguideton01bost (find matches)
Title: The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: (Boston) J. F. Murphy
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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be made, the authorities should see to it,that a balloon or some other buoyant aid befurnished visitors. Upon emerging from thegap in the floor, a rather large room is con-fronted. Laying along by the wall is a longtable. Whether, the prisoners here amusethemselves at billiard or cue alley games, can-not be said, for the guide didnt seem to know.Leading from this room is another. But it islocked. Here, the guides said, are keptliquors. Can this account for the popularesteem in which the fraternity of the road re-gard this institution. In one of the cells in the jail was confinedPatience Cooper, who, a number of years ago,was arrested for murder. The lattice workstructure that separates the cells was to admitheat to her cell, it not being considered safe toput her within reach of fire on account of herunsound mind. For each arrest the officer receives 50 cents.The jail is said to be 150 years old. Another comedy that was enacted within thequeer old jail is related to have happened when
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62 NANTUCKET. at one time, a young man was the jailer.Elated by the dignity of his important position,the young man imbibed freely of the ardent.As his spirits began to rise he conceived theidea of treating one of the prisoners. Accordingly he bought a quantity of old red-eye and made for the jail with the condescen-tion of a monarch he invited the prisoner tosmile with him. Smile followed smile andthey began to grow dear to each other in thesympathy of one great cause. The jailor sug-gested a perambulation about the town and theprisoner acquiesced. The next tableau in this phase of manifestinterrelation came to a tapis when a messengerinformed the selectmen that the jailer and hisprisoner were in a state of ossification in thesuburbs. Further comment is superfluous. The scribe was told a quaint incident inwhich a justice figured. It seems that over atSconset a number of burglaries had been com-mitted. The matter was brought to the atten-tion of a well known resident who figures as af

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