There is no doubt that on many farms the two sexes have still at this busy time to herd together even at night.
The bothy was but scantily furnished, though it consisted of two rooms.
In the one, which was used almost solely as a sleeping apartment, there was no furniture to speak of, beyond two closet beds, and its bumpy earthen floor gave it a cheerless look.

The other, which had a single bed, was floored with wood.

It was not badly lit by two very small windows that faced each other, and, besides several stools, there was a long form against one of the walls.

A bright fire of peat and coal--nothing in the world makes such a cheerful red fire as this combination--burned beneath a big kettle ("boiler" they called it), and there was a "press" or cupboard containing a fair assortment of cooking utensils.

Of these some belonged to the bothy, while others were the private property of the tenants.