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part bartender, part bouncer, part priest hearing confessions over the last room available
ancient gigBabylonian law set rules for innkeepers 3,700 years ago
often womenmedieval English alewives and innkeepers were frequently female
legal dutycommon law obliged them to admit any decent traveler
named everywherecountless pub surnames trace back to the trade
no vacancythe world's most famous one had no room