It is entered from behind, and slopes backwards.

The sitter sits sideways, between a cracked window on one side and a cracked doorway on the other; and as a draught is always going in at the ear next the window, and out at the ear next the door, it is about as cold and comfortless a vehicle for winter as may be well imagined.
Now the journey from Castle Richmond to Cork has to be made right across the Boggeragh Mountains.

It is over twenty miles Irish; and the road is never very good.

Mr.Mollett, therefore, was five hours in the covered car on his return journey; and as he had stopped for lunch at Kanturk, and had not hurried himself at that meal, it was very dark and very cold when he reached the house in South Main Street.
I think I have explained that Mr.Mollett senior was not absolutely a drunkard; but nevertheless, he was not averse to spirits in cold weather, and on this journey had warmed himself with whisky once or twice on the road.

He had found a shebeen house when he crossed the Nad river, and another on the mountain-top, and a third at the point where the road passes near the village of Blarney, and at all these convenient resting-spots Mr.Mollett had endeavoured to warm himself.
There are men who do not become absolutely drunk, but who do become absolutely cross when they drink more than is good for them; and of such men Mr.Mollett was one.