On the eastern bank of the great Hudson River, in North America, there is a small town.
Its name is Tarry Town. Once the town had a different name. Why did it change? This
is the reason. Wives often sent their husbands to the market in the town to buy and sell
things. “Come back quickly,” the wives always said. But the husbands never returned
home quickly. They stayed or “tarried” in the town and they drank beer at the inns there.
So people started to call the place Tarry Town.