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On the doors of the establishment all the latches, nails, and

hooks were either cut off or bore the marks of sabres; evidently

here they had tested the temper of those swords of the time of

the Sigismunds, with which one might boldly cut off the heads of

nails or cleave hooks in two without making a notch in the blade.

Over the doors could be seen coats of arms of the Dobrzynskis,

but shelves of cheeses veiled the bearings, and swallows had

walled them in thickly with their nests.