A third man, who seemed the elder by quite twenty years, was at the window reading a newspaper; and I got no shock when I saw that it was the _Saturday Review_, which he and a labourer on an adjoining farm took in weekly between them.

There was a copy of a local newspaper--the _People's Journal_--also lying about, and some books, including one of Darwin's.

These were all the property of this man, however, who did the reading for the bothy.
They did all the cooking for themselves, living largely on milk.

In the old days, which the senior could remember, porridge was so universally the morning meal that they called it by that name instead of breakfast.

They still breakfast on porridge, but often take tea "above it." Generally milk is taken with the porridge; but "porter" or stout in a bowl is no uncommon substitute.