June
1st Day of June:
Narrator: Old William has returned he speaks of The miraculous Hebrew.
Catharine: the villager spoke was but gibberish, the product of a brain fever or an overactive imagination .Gone are Williams hopes for greatness .he is standing again, his back to our fire writing of the founding of Rome by twin orphans nursed by a wolf .
2nd day of June:
Narrator: A message from Robert has come
Robert: My wife has died along with the child she carriedL
Catharine: Astonishingly she had died as little fuss as she lived .I never once called her name it was Agnes. Mayhap I need brume some wormwood and periwinkle, to comfort my heart.
3ed Day of June: Catharine: We dressed in green and yellow Whit day and sang “Summer is cumen in “ The dancers are wearing Tree costumes they are warm but yet clumsy .We were happy to think on the church ale to come.
4th day of June : Catharine: Quiet Day .I am sore of head and sour of stomach.
5th day of June: Narrator: Catharine Helped an ant today .Catharine: She was struggling back to its home and was carrying a burden that looked so heavy it could squish her .I knew that the villagers would be riding there animals down soon so I put her on a leaf and found a near by hole in the dirt that looked like a home to her .She stumbled around but made her way to the hole.
6th day of June Catharine’s Father: Roar!!! Catharine: My father woke up roaring this morning. Toothache .He rubbed garlic on his thumb and left the smelly paste there all day, but that reliable remedy failed him. Catharine’s father: I will go to the Lincoln tooth puller Catherine’s Mother: No, I’m afraid the pulling will leave a whole and the evil sprits will get into your body. Catherine :I think its more likely the evil spirits could get out.
8th day of June Narrator: Catherine’s mother convinced the beast to send to the abbey for the Spanish physician. She thinks that he can cure the toothache without leaving a hole.
11th day of June Narrator: Two days ago the Spanish physician was at Catherine’s house telling her father that the toothache was caused by an imbalance of humors in his body and he needed to take out some blood from his body. Catharine: The Spanish physician cut a vein of my father and caught the heavy dark blood in a pot. Then the physician took some henbane leaves and mixed it together, and also rolled it into little pellets, and dropped it in the fire. But my father still roared so the physician return .The toothache it seems didn’t come from any unbalanced humors but from a toothworm buried deep under my fathers jaw.while my father was by the fire his beard caught a fire.
13th day of June Narrator: They were on their way to the tooth puller in Lincoln. Morwenna, Catherine, and Catherine’s father went to the tooth puller. Because the worm was very stubborn and hard for the physician to get out. Morwenna: You should be in the play in Lincoln about the Wonders of Creation and the life of Jesus. Catharine’s Father: Sure, Why not? Catharine: I will be there to see.
19th Day of June: Narrator: Catharine saw many things on her way to the tooth puller Catharine: there were dogs, cats, roosters, geese, pigs, horses, merchants, travelers, house wives hurrying to the market, serving maid cleaning and much more. When we reached the puller the beast roared again but the tooth was out. My fathers jaw was black and swollen. Narrator: Catharine also talks about the many differences of heaven and hell .
20th day of June: Narrator :Meg from the dairy finnaly has three pigs so she will marry Thomas Bakers oldest son Alf,as soon as they get a cottage .
Catherine: if only I was Meg.
22nd day of June Catherine: this afternoon I was flea catching I spread a white cloth on each bed so even my weak eyes could I the black fleas. Today I thought of ways to get rid of shaggy beard.
23ed day of June