![]() ![]() It consisted solely of heaps of stones–which were handy for throwing down the hole–together with a few rusty Genoese cross-bows with their bolts and a pile of turfs for the unlit fire. The complicated system of draughts sucked the smoke down the chimney. A second nuisance was that the room was full of peat-smoke, not from its own fire but from the fire in the room below. Unfortunately the wind used to come up through the hole and go pouring out of the unglazed shot-windows or up the chimney–unless it happened to be blowing the other way, in which case it went downward. This hole commanded the outer doors of the tower, of which there were two, and people could drop stones through it when they were besieged. There was a closet on the east side which had a hole in the floor. There was a circular room at the top of the tower, curiously uncomfortable. The weather-cock was a carrion crow, with an arrow in its beak to point to the wind. ![]() There was a round tower with a weather-cock on it. ![]()
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