THE SAILOR'S FUNERAL Moss Brow, the Corney's house, was but a disorderly, comfortless place.

You had to cross a dirty farmyard, all puddles and dungheaps, on stepping-stones, to get to the door of the house-place.

That great room itself was sure to have clothes hanging to dry at the fire, whatever day of the week it was; some one of the large irregular family having had what is called in the district a 'dab-wash' of a few articles, forgotten on the regular day.

And sometimes these articles lay in their dirty state in the untidy kitchen, out of which a room, half parlour, half bedroom, opened on one side, and a dairy, the only clean place in the house, at the opposite.

In face of you, as you entered the door, was the entrance to the working-kitchen, or scullery.