Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Temple Bar, Vol. 85: With Which Is Incorporated "Bentley's Miscellany," a London Magazine, for Town and Country Readers; January to April 1889
During the week the keeper's wife washed in the basement and Blopped soapy water about, that ran between the slates and formed puddles, lurking under corners, and when, on Sunday, the incautious foot rested on an angle of slate, the slab tilted and squirted forth the stale, unsavoury water.
The room, as already said, was unceiled. The rafters were of solid oak; the boards above were of deal, and had shrunk in places, and in places dropped out the core of their knots. The keeper's children found a pleasure in poking sticks and fingers through, and in lying ?at on the ?oor with an eye on the knot hole, surveying through it the proceedings in the Sunday-school below.
About the ?oor in unsystematic arrangement spraddled forms of deal, rubbed by boys' trousers to a polish. Some of these forms were high in the leg, others short. No two were on a level, and no two were of the same length. They were rudely set about the ?oor in rhomboidal shapes, or rather in trapeziums, which according to Euclid have no defined shapes at all.
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