The Time Traveler's Handbook: 19 Experiences from the Eruption of Vesuvius to Woodstock by Johnny Acton & David Goldblatt & James Wyllie

Author:Johnny Acton & David Goldblatt & James Wyllie [Acton, Johnny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-05-23T22:00:00+00:00

EVENING PURSUITS

You will be staying the night at THE BELL INN by St Paul’s Cathedral—the original Norman version of 1087. A LIGHT SUPPER will be served at 6pm, with a musical accompaniment provided by fiddlers, bagpipers, and ballad singers. The atmosphere will be very smoky; you can add to the tobacco haze by purchasing a small-bowled PIPE. Those with a competitive streak may fancy a game of CHESS or a crack at the BOWLING ALEE. There will also be GAMBLING going on around you, whether on card games—gleek, primero, one and thirty, new cut, and trumps—or dice, which are almost always loaded. Don’t get involved unless you are very skilled with a blade; disputes over money and honour can escalate rapidly into duels to the death.

Whatever you do, you must be off the streets by the 9PM CURFEW, which is signalled by the ringing of church bells. Watches, with powers of arrest, patrol the city to ensure that the taverns are shut, the shops shuttered, and all good citizens are safely behind closed doors.

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