The Prints And Pictures Which I Have Generally Seen At These Inns
Are, I Think, Almost Always Prints Of The
Royal family, oftentimes
in a group, where the king, as the father of the family, assembles
his children around him;
Or else I have found a map of London, and
not seldom the portrait of the King of Prussia; I have met with it
several times. You also sometimes see some of the droll prints of
Hogarth. The heat being now very great, I several times in this
village heard the commiserating exclamation of "Good God Almighty!"
by which the people expressed their pity for me, as being a poor
foot passenger.
At night I again stopped at an inn on the road, about five miles
from Matlock. I could easily have reached Matlock, but I wished
rather to reserve the first view of the country till the next day
than to get there when it was dark.
But I was not equally fortunate in this inn, as in the two former.
The kitchen was full of farmers, among whom I could not distinguish
the landlord, whose health I should otherwise immediately have
drank. It is true I heard a country girl who was also in the
kitchen, as often as she drank say, "Your health, gentlemen all!"
But I do not know how it was, I forgot to drink any one's health,
which I afterwards found was taken much amiss. The landlord drank
twice to my health sneeringly, as if to reprimand me for my
incivility; and then began to join the rest in ridiculing me, who
almost pointed at me with their fingers.
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