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
  
  
  ### 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 washed her face, and put on
  
  
  an attractive little pinafore, so that homely people in quest of lodgings
  readily gave ea