She was brought up in her father's house, in Jacques' poor dwelling.[168] In the front there were two windows admitting but a scanty light. The stone roof forming one side of a gable on the garden side sloped almost to the ground. Close by the door, as was usual in that country, were the dung-heap, a pile of firewood, and the farm tools covered with rust and mud. But the humble enclosure, which served as orchard and kitchen-garden, in the spring bloomed in a wealth of pink and white flowers.[169] [Footnote 168: _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 244 _et seq._ Jacques d'Arc's house doubtless looked on to the road; the Du Lys, or rather the Thiesselins, pulled it down and erected in its place a house no longer existing. The shields which ornamented its facade have been placed upon the door of the building now shown as Jeanne's house. What is represented as Jeanne's room is the bakehouse (E. Hinzelin, _Chez Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 74). See an article by Henri Arsac in _L'echo de l'Est_, 26 July, 1890. A whole literature has been written on this subject (Lanery d'Arc, _Livre d'or_, pp. 330 _et seq._).] [Footnote 169: Emile Hinzelin, _Chez Jeanne d'Arc_, _passim_.] These good Christians had one more child, the youngest, Pierre, who was called Pierrelot.[170] [Footnote 170: _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 151, 220.] Fed on light wine and brown bread, hardened by a hard life, Jeanne grew up in an unfruitful land, among people who were rough and sober. She lived in perfect liberty. Among hard-working peasants the children are left to themselves. Isabelle's daughter seems to have got on well with the village children. A little neighbour, Hauviette, three or four years younger than she, was her daily companion. They liked to sleep together in the same bed.[171] Mengette, whose parents lived close by, used to come and spin at Jacques d'Arc's house. She helped Jeanne with her household duties.[172] Taking her distaff with her, Jeanne used often to go and pass the evening at Saint-Amance, at the house of a husbandman Jacquier, who had a young daughter.[173] Boys and girls grew up as a matter of course side by side. Being neighbours, Jeanne and Simonin Musnier's son were brought up together. When Musnier's son was still a child he fell ill, and Jeanne nursed him.[174] [Footnote 171: _Ibid._, vol. ii, p. 417: "_Jacuit amorose in domo patris sui._"] [Footnote 172: _Ibid._, p. 429.] [Footnote 173: _Ibid._, p. 408.] [Footnote 174: _Ibid._, p. 423.] In those days it was not unprecedented for village maidens to know their letters. A few years earlier Maitre Jean Gerson had counselled his sisters, peasants of Champagne, to learn to read, and had promised, if they succeeded, to give them edifying books.[175] Albeit the niece of a parish priest, Jeanne did not learn her horn-book, thus resembling most of the village children, but not all, for at Maxey there was a school attended by boys from Domremy.[176]