File:1642-1892. Legends of Woburn, now first written and preserved in collected form to which is added a chrono-indexical history of Woburn (1892) (14590979828).jpg

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Title: 1642-1892. Legends of Woburn, now first written and preserved in collected form ... to which is added a chrono-indexical history of Woburn
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Converse, Parker Lindall, 1822-1899
Subjects: Legends
Publisher: Woburn, Mass., Printed for subscribers only
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Y years ago, but within the memory ofthe oldest people of Woburn, there wasto be seen in the pasture, on a spot overwhich Church street now runs, and somesix rods from Main street, in Woburn, theremains of an old cellar, over which, inthe last of the 17th century, stood a little country-tavern. Now this Inn, like all Inns at that time, hada bar-room, in which was a huge fireplace, with chim-ney throat large enough to allow the stars at night tobe seen by looking up, piled in winter time with logsof blazing w^ood placed on andirons, against whichleaned a loggerhead ; while over the fire swung a longcrane, from which, amid the smoke, hung an iron ket-tle ; constituting a nightly place of resort for the malegossips of the neighborhood, as well as for the fewtravellers putting up there. Now this loggerhead, or Flip-Dog, as it was some-times called, consisted of a piece of iron about two feetlong, one end being quite thick, while the otherdwindled down to a handle ; such an article being a
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91 main spoke in the furniture of every such place inthose days. It was used in making flip, which was amixture of beer, spirit and sugar, into which the log-gerhead, hot from the fire, was thrust, heating thecompound and causing a froth on top which usuallyran over the sides of the mug. It was on a cold sleety evening in December thatseveral of the settlers were here gathered, discussingthe news over their mugs of flip, and especially therumors of suspicious actions by the Indians, whichwere thought to indicate mischief. I tell you, said one, those varmints are tarna-tion treacherous and sly. I^ast night as I passedMianomo (Rag Rock) just at dusk, I saw two ofthem skulking in the woods under the rock. Yes, said R , and I saw across I^ake In- nitou (Horn Pond) one dodging about and evidentlyreconnoitering. And, said another, we all know their trails,with remains of recent camp-fires, have been seen bythe hunters north of here. And it is even told thatscouts from the Pequots and Narrag

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