Photo by Arthur Stanley Riggs 



a typical peasant's bed in brittany 



It is a sort of closet mounted upon a linen locker. The occupant climbs upon the 

 mountainous feather mattresses, pulls the curtains or sliding doors tight shut, and goes to — 

 suffocation. This bed was in a fisherman's house on the coast not far from St. Malo (see 

 page 417). 



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