The Inn at the Red Oak

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - By the end of the second decade of the last century MondayPort had passed the height of prosperity as one of the principaldepots for the West Indian trade. The shipping was rapidlybeing transferred to New York and Boston and the oldfamilies of the Port having made their fortunes in rum andtobacco as often as not were either moving away to follow thetrade or had acquiesced in the changed conditions and weresettling down to enjoy the fruit of their labours. The harbournow was frequently deserted except for an occasional coastwisetrader; the streets began to wear that melancholy aspect of atown whose good days are more a memory than a presentreality; and the old stage roads to Coventry and Perth Anhaultwere no longer the arteries of travel they once had been.