There was a fair collection of books, none of very recent date, and on the walls several maps and prints.

The most striking object was a great stuffed bird that stood in a glass-case before the window--a capercailzie shot by Quarrier long ago in Norway, and presented to his brother-in-law.
Tobias settled himself in a chair, and kicked a coal from the bars of the grate.
"Tom is very strong against religious fanaticism," he said, laughing.
"I have to pull him up now and then.

I suppose you heard about the crazy goings-on down here in the summer ?" "Not I.Revivalist meetings ?" "The whole town was turned upside down.

Such frenzy among the women I never witnessed.

Three times a day they flocked in swarms to the Public Hall, and there screeched and wept and fainted, till it really looked as if some authority ought to interfere.