Few of the cabins of the mountaineers have windows, the door being the principal source of daylight. In some instances a few panes of glass are let into the wall. The rule is to reach the loft over the main room of each cabin by a ladder inside, at the foot of the bed ; but there are cabins so primitive that when the woman takes you up to show you her room she calls to her eldest girl child, “ Nance, get the pegs and set ’em in for we all to go up.” Then the cirl finds a number of rough-whittled wooden pins, twice the size of clothes-pins, and fits them into the line of hob s in the logs under the loft-hole. A pail, a wasb-bowl, and a dipper set out of doors si rve for the requirements of the toilet. Brushes of any sort seem to be unknown. The women “.stick ” th' ir hair over with water and a comb, and the children fight against tangles ssa best they can.
PEEPS BEHIND THE VEIL.
