Let us seek one which is peculiarly the poor man's cottage, and let us go in and see who and what they are, how they live, and above all, how they think and talk.

Here is a lane, let us follow it, till we come to a habitation." We turned into a grass road, bounded on either side by a high straggling thorn hedge.

At its termination was an irregular cottage with a thatched roof, which projected over the windows in front.

The latter were latticed with diamond-shaped panes of glass, and were four in number, one on each side of the door and two just under the roof.

The door was made of two transverse parts, the upper half of which was open.