text:  The door of rough planks swung heavily upon two hooks that fitted into iron rings and formed a clumsy substitute for hinges; a wooden latch and heavy bar served to secure it; windows properly speaking there were none but in their stead a few holes covered with dirty oiled paper; the floor was of clay stamped hard and dry in the middle of the hut but out of which at the sides of the room a crop of rank grass was growing a foot or more high