Note 37 — WALTER HAMILTON, (continued 10)

Drum.—“A drum, then, is an assembly of well-dressed persons of both sexes, most of whom play at cards, and the rest do nothing at all; while the mistress of the house performs the part of the landlady at an inn, and, like the landlady of an inn, prides herself in the number of her guests, though she doth not always, like her, get anything by it.”—Fielding, History of a Foundling, p. xvii;, ch. 6.