There Were FOUR Chairs, All "Up" To My Weight, While Two Of Them Were Up To The Maluka's. The Cane Was All Gone, Certainly, But Had Been Replaced With Green-Hide Seats (Not Green In Colour, Of Course, Only Green In Experience, Never Having Seen A Tan-Pit).

In addition to the chairs, the dining-table, the four-poster bed, the wire mattress, and the looking glass, there

Was a solid deal side table, made from the side of a packing-case, with four solid legs and a solid shelf underneath, also a remarkably steady washstand that had no ware of any description, and a remarkably unsteady chest of four drawers, one of which refused to open, while the other three refused to shut. Further, the dining-table was more than "fairly" steady, three of the legs being perfectly sound, and it therefore only threatened to fall over when leaned upon. And lastly, although most of the plates and all the cups were enamel ware, there was almost a complete dinner service in china. The teapot, however, was tin, and, as Mac said, as "big as a house."

As for the walls, not only were the "works of art" there, but they themselves were uniquely dotted from ceiling to floor with the muddy imprints of dogs' feet - not left there by a Pegasus breed of winged dogs, but made by the muddy feet of the station dogs, as the, pattered over the timber, when it lay awaiting the carpenter, and no one had seen any necessity to remove them.

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