and they turned towards the inn, known in the neigh-bourhood as the Quiet Woman, the sign of which represented the figure of a matron carrying her head under her arm, be-neath which gruesome design was written the couplet so well known to frequenters of the inn:— SINCE THE WOMAN'S QUIET LET NO MAN BREED A RIOT.(1) (1) The inn which really bore this sign and legend stood some miles to the northwest of the present scene, wherein the house more immediately referred to is now no longer an inn; and the surroundings are much changed. But another inn, some of whose features are also embodied in this
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