Nothing to which the name of luxury could be given was there known; in the latter part of his life, indeed, when tea had been brought into almost general use, it was provided for visitors, and for such of his own family as returned occasionally to his roof, and had been accustomed to this refreshment elsewhere; but neither he nor his wife ever partook of it.

The raiment worn by his family was comely and decent, but as simple as their diet; the home-spun materials were made up into apparel by their own hands.

At the time of the decease of this thrifty pair, their cottage contained a large store of webs of woollen and linen cloth, woven from thread of their own spinning.

And it is remarkable that the pew in the chapel in which the family used to sit, remains neatly lined with woollen cloth spun by the pastor's own hands.
It is the only pew in the chapel so distinguished; and I know of no other instance of his conformity to the delicate accommodations of modern times.

The fuel of the house, like that of their neighbours, consisted of peat, procured from the mosses by their own labour.