On the mantelpiece was arrayed the innkeeper's collection of figured earthenware pots and stone jugs.
Some people keep yeast in bottles, but they are apt to burst--some use jugs, but they cannot be cleaned so easily as jars.
On one of the shelves of an old dresser, in company with chipped sauce-boats, pewter jugs, cheese-graters, and paid bills, rested a worn and ragged Bible, on whose front page was the record, in faded ink, of a baptism dated ninety-four years ago.