Arriving at the Varian farm, they would turn their droves of several hundred head of cattle out to graze and themselves would rest at the tavern for several days, making their sales with the dealers, who would drive out from the city and select their purchases. Then, after this interval of rest, the cattle, much improved after their long march, would be driven directly to their various destinations by their new owners. The pastures of the tavern extended to the north and west of the house, and until of late years the barns, in which were stored large quantities of fodder for the droves, stood, a-s of old, to the west of the tavern itself.'

' The following extract from a letter in the New York Evening Potl for December 0, 1879, is of interest in connection with the Varian family : " In the good keeping of Dr. William Varian, of Kingsbridge, New York City, is now, and has long been, the ancisnt'faniily Bible of his ancestors, the Varians of Westchester County, New York, the proud lot of which was to lie preserved, uninjured, through the War of the Revolution, by being buried in the cellar of their dwelling-house, the old residence in the town of Scarsdale, near the former Morris and I'opham Estates, still standing, and occupied by a Viirian. Although being much exposed (the family being patriotic) to the depredations of British soldiens, and especially of the ' cow-boys ' -- those notorious brigands of the period, so well described in Cooper's 'Spy ' and Bolton's ' Historj- of Westchester County " -- this farm-house escaped both the torch and their pillage, and the dark cellar at the dawn of peace, true to its trust, delivered up the remarkable volume as good ii3 ever, to be the household companion of subsequent generations, whose names are registered therein.