Two or three thoroughly smoked hams, suspended from the beams, announced that there was no fear of a famine before the gastronomic massacres of Middlemas.

Opposite the window, a large, polished oak dresser displayed an array of large flowered plates and little octagon-shaped glasses.

A huge kitchen kettle and some wooden chairs completed the furniture of the room.
From the kitchen one passed into another room, where a permanent table surrounded by benches occupied its entire length.

The wall paper, once green, was now a dirty gray; it was embellished by half a dozen black frames representing the story of Prince Poniatowski, who shares the honor of decorating village inns with Paul and Virginia and Wilhelm Tell.

On the upper floor-for this aristocratic dwelling had a second story--several sleeping-rooms opened upon a long corridor, at the end of which was a room with two beds in it.