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The Consequences of Refusing a Traveller a Night's Lodging
Refused lodging some twenty times on Long Island, Sojourner declines a bed in the jail-tavern rather than be locked in, and spends the night instead with a poor couple whose hospitality runs through a whiskey-soaked ball to a one-pallet cabin.
Twenty refusals of a night's lodgingRefusing to be locked inThe ball and the one-pallet cabin