The left counter held a case filled with threads, buttons, combs, colored ribbons, and belts and jew's-harps.

A balance stood in the middle of this counter.

A chest of tea, a big brown jug, a box of candles, a keg and a large wooden pail occupied its farther end.
The shelving on its side walls was filled by straw hats, plug tobacco, bolts of cloth, pills and patent medicines and paste-board boxes containing shirts, handkerchiefs and underwear.

A suit of blue jeans, scythes and snaths, hoes, wooden hand rakes and a brass warming-pan hung from the rafters.

At the rear end of the store was a large fireplace.
There were two chairs near the fireplace, both of which were occupied by a man who sat in one while his feet lay on the other.