Beside it hung a huge, grimy oil painting representative of some flowers and fruit, half a water melon, a boar's head, and the pendent form of a dead wild duck.

Attached to the ceiling there was a chandelier in a holland covering--the covering so dusty as closely to resemble a huge cocoon enclosing a caterpillar.

Lastly, in one corner of the room lay a pile of articles which had evidently been adjudged unworthy of a place on the table.

Yet what the pile consisted of it would have been difficult to say, seeing that the dust on the same was so thick that any hand which touched it would have at once resembled a glove.

Prominently protruding from the pile was the shaft of a wooden spade and the antiquated sole of a shoe.