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In one of these places, a novel’s narrator puzzles over a “boggy, soggy, squitchy picture” in a “thoroughly besmoked” oil painting. A Decameron-esque collection titled for this sort of place includes multiple stories from a student, a Sicilian, and a Spanish Jew, and is set in Sudbury, Massachusetts. In a novel, an old lady cries out “clam or cod?” in one of these places, where the narrator first meets a man smoking a tomahawk (10[1])pipe. “Paul Revere’s Ride” appears in a collection of “Tales of” one of these places by (10[1])Henry Wadsworth (10[1])Longfellow. A novel’s narrator becomes “bosom-friends” with a former prince of Rokovoko at one of these places called Spouter. (10[1])For 10 points, early chapters of Moby-Dick are set (10[1])in what sort of place where Queequeg (-5[1])and Ishmael are lodgers? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: inns [accept Wayside Inn or Sudbury Inn or Tales of a Wayside Inn; accept Spouter Inn; prompt on hotels or lodges]
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