The building consisted of barns, stable-room for twelve or fifteen horses, and a hut for an eating-room for passengers.
This latter had bunks in it for the station-keeper and a hostler or two.
You could rest your elbow on its eaves, and you had to bend in order to get in at the door.

In place of a window there was a square hole about large enough for a man to crawl through, but this had no glass in it.
There was no flooring, but the ground was packed hard.

There was no stove, but the fire-place served all needful purposes.

There were no shelves, no cupboards, no closets.

In a corner stood an open sack of flour, and nestling against its base were a couple of black and venerable tin coffee-pots, a tin teapot, a little bag of salt, and a side of bacon.
By the door of the station-keeper's den, outside, was a tin wash-basin, on the ground.