IX
THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCILWhere Garden Street[1] crosses the Broad-Way I met the town bellringer brandishing his bell.
[1] Now Exchange Place.
"'Tis Friday afternoon of the week," he bellowed, "and all householders shall take notice they must collect their refuse and offal and dump the same in the river or the swamps beyond the city limits. And they are to sweep the streets before their shops and dwellings and destroy or remove the sweepings after the same fashion. Proclaimed by order of the worshipful mayor and aldermen."
He was beginning his oration all over again, when I approached him with a request for the location of Captain van Horne's house.
"Do you but follow your nose straight before you," he directed me, "until you come to the red-brick mansion with the yellow-brick walk t
