title: Yarmouth Revisited (Images of America)
author:  Amy Aldredge 
description: Amy Aldredge is a former trustee of the Yarmouth Historical Society and is now the program director of the Yarmouth History Center. She received her masters degree in American and New England Studies from the University of Southern Maine.
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  The Tout of Yarmouth Bridge  
    
  
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  # The Tout of Yarmouth Bridge
  
  
  ### George Gissing
  
  
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  Technically speaking, Mrs. Bloggs was full; that is to say, she had packed her
  house with twice as many lodgers as a regard for health or comfort would have
  permitted her to receive. For a holiday refuge, it had no striking advantages;
  from the windows nothing was visible but a street precisely resembling those
  of poorer Kennington, and the beach was half a mile away. Mrs. Bloggs owed
  something of this prosperity to her niece, a girl only twelve years old, but
  rich in the peculiar gifts which go to make a perfect landlady. When a vacancy
  occurred, Serena — that was the girl's happy name — strolled down to Yarmouth
  Bridge, and met the swarm of people constantly pouring forth from the railway
  station. She had was