... a sort of granary and depot for the provisions of the family, was ascended by means of a ladder, and through a squareaperture just large enough to admit with ease the body of a man.There was, ... keeping, on the score of scantiness and age, with the coat, covered the attenuatedlower limbs of the wearer, on whose head, moreover, was stuck a conical cap that had all the appearance of having ... This man was about five andthirty. The last of the little party was a boy. He was a raw-boned lad of about fourteen years of age, and of faircomplexion, with blue eyes, and an immense head of...