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When they had got into the valley, the clock of the neighbouring monastery struck twelve, and the song ceased. In a moment all had vanished, and the hill lay in solitude in the moonlight. The two travellers found an inn, and covered themselves up on their straw-beds with their coats, but in their weariness forgot to take the coals out of them before doing so.
He left the shed and the boys followed him to his dwelling, and to a room adjoining the living-room. "There are two straw-beds on this bedstead," he said. "One can be taken off and put on the floor, and one of you can sleep upon it, while the other two can have the one on the bedstead." "I will take the one on the floor. Then Pixy can sleep with me," said Fritz.
"And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils." Vol. I. p. 328. The second instance is from vol. II. page 12, where the poet having gone out for a day's tour of pleasure, meets early in the morning with a knot of Gipsies, who had pitched their blanket-tents and straw-beds, together with their children and asses, in some field by the road- side.
They will leave their city palaces, the large and convenient rooms, comfortable bedsteads and mattresses, and all the delicacies of the season, and submit to being stowed away on straw-beds or cots, even upon the floor, half-a-dozen in a small chamber, or four deep in an entry, to be half-starved into the bargain upon badly cooked fish and other equally cheap commodities, for the mere sake of being able to think that they are enjoying the sea-breeze."
In another room forty-five men and ten straw-beds; in a third, thirty-nine poor creatures dying in nine bunks; in three other rooms, eighty miserable creatures on sixteen mattresses filled with vermin, and, as to the women, fifty-four having nine mattresses and standing up alternately. The worst prisons in Paris were the Conciergerie, La Force, Le Plessis and Bicetre.
The blanket was in tatthers, and, like the shirt, would go round the house: their straw-beds were stocked with the black militia the childer's heads were garrisoned with Scotch greys, and their heels and heads ornamented with all description of kibes.
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