The room, circular in form, was very spacious; but the tables were so thickly set and the drinkers so numerous, that all that the tavern contained, men, women, benches, beer−jugs, all that were drinking, all thatwere sleeping, all that were playing, the well, the lame, seemed piled up pell−mell, with as much order and harmony as a heap of oyster shells.
La salle, de forme ronde, était très vaste, mais les tables étaient si pressées et les buveurs si nombreux, que tout ce que contenait la taverne, hommes, femmes, bancs, cruches à bière, ce qui buvait, ce qui dormait, ce qui jouait, les bien portants, les éclopés, semblaient entassés pêle-mêle avec autant d’ordre et d’harmonie qu’un tas d’écailles d’huîtres.