How does Nicholas spend his time while he is in the lumber room in Saki's story "The Lumber Room"?

In by ,
Nicholas implements his plan to enter
the forbidden room while his aunt searches for him in the
gooseberry garden.
Being just a little boy, Nicholas practiced using a key for days before he

had the opportunity to use the real one to enter the lumber room.

While he
was in the room, Nicholas was treated to a variety of items
that brought him great delight and
intrigue. One of the first things he did
was to examine the scene depicted on a piece of
tapestry. To the little boy,
the scene of a hunt came to life as he imagined the sights and
sounds
associated with the hunter aiming the bow and arrow at a stag as dogs joined in the
hunt.
But, the boy could see what the hunter could not. There were wolves
descending on the man and
dogs, which left Nicholas wondering how the story
would unfold.

First and foremost there
was a piece of framed tapestry that was evidently meant to be
a fire-screen.
To Nicholas it was a living, breathing story; he sat down on a roll of Indian

hangings, glowing in wonderful colours beneath a layer of dust, and took in all the
details of
the tapestry picture. 

The
tapestry was not the only
object of delight in the room. There were dust
covered rugs, lamps, paintings, pieces of china,
candlesticks, and a variety
of books. In addition, there was a plain bound book, which Nicholas
thought
would not hold any interest for him. But when he opened it, it was filled with
pictures
of exotic birds, the likes of which he had never seen.

Less promising in appearance was a large square
book with plain black covers; Nicholas
peeped into it, and, behold, it was
full of coloured pictures of birds.

Nicholas spent his time in the lumber room enraptured by its

contents of curiosities.