text:  The worthy captain on giving up his lease had sold his furniture; but we were very welcome to it as tenant for a year! "Are there no furnished houses in this neighbourhood at all?" "No--e'es--may be you'll get in at the shippus "--which being Anglicized is sheep-house; and away we toddled a mile and a half to the shippus--a nice old farm-house with some pretensions to squiredom and the inhabitants kind and civil as heart could wish