In one corner of the room were a pile of shoes which need an epic to describe them.

The top of the bureau and that of the piano were encumbered by music-books with ragged backs and whitened corners, through which the pasteboard showed its many layers.
Along the walls the names and addresses of pupils written on scraps of paper were stuck on by wafers,--the number of wafers without paper indicating the number of pupils no longer taught.

On the wall-papers were many calculations written with chalk.

The bureau was decorated with beer-mugs used the night before, their newness appearing very brilliant in the midst of this rubbish of dirt and age.

Hygiene was represented by a jug of water with a towel laid upon it, and a bit of common soap.