From the barn-yard they entered the barn itself, by a small door near one corner.
There were two great doors in the middle of the barn, made so large that, when they were opened, there was space enough for a large load of hay to go in.

Opposite these doors there was a space floored over with plank, pretty wide, and extending through the barn to the back side.
This was called the barn floor.

On one side was a place divided off for stables for the horses, and on the other side was the _tie-up_, a place for the oxen and cows.

There was also the bay, and the lofts for hay and grain; and at the end of the tie-up there was a door leading into a calf-pen, and thence, by a passage behind the calf-pen, to a work-shop and shed.

The small door where the boys came in, led to a long and narrow passage, between the tie-up and the bay.
They walked along, Jonas going before with his lantern in his hand.