As soon as the meal was over the children disappeared, and their elders gathered round the peat fire, which also burnt such miscellaneous fuel as briars, cow-dung, and fishbones.
Zoodra de maaltijd afgeloopen was, verdwenen de kinderen; de volwassenen gingen om den haard zitten, waaraan turf, heide, koemest en graten van gedroogde visch lagen.