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Sunday, 19 April 2009
almost there

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:                                                                             Catherine: We dressed in green and yellow Whit day and sang “Summer is cumin 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 it’s 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 tooth worm 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 finally 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. Then Later today I thought of ways to get rid of shaggy beard.

23ed Day of June                                                                                           Narrator: everyone is celebrating Midsummer Eve eating drinking and dancing in the fields but Catharine cannot.                                    Catherine: I’m filled with dread over this marriage business .If only the bonfires lit throughout the shire this night to drive demons and dragons away would drive unwelcome suitors away as well .I am going to bed with the sounds of singing in my ears but not in my heart.

24th Day f June                                                                                              Catherine: where will next midsummer day find me?

25th day of June                                                                                                            Ralph littlemouse: I had a dream that Perkin’s Granny was siting by the road with blood on her clothes so in the morning I ran to her cottage and she was dead.                                                                                           Narrator: Glynna Cotter and Thomas bakers wife, Ann, washed and dressed her and laid her on the table cottage .Tonight all the villagers watch when they will really be playing games and drinking                                   Catherine: at least she’s not alone

26th day of June

Catharine: We took Perkins granny from her cottage to the church in the dark Father Huw said a lot of thing about sinners and hellfire.After I tried to convice perkin to sleep in our hall but he said no.

 

27th Day of June

Narrator: Before light Catherine awoke and slipped into her clothes and went to the dairy to see Meg.

Catharine: Meg, I have inspired notion .I think God sent Perkin’s Granny’s cottage to you.

Meg: A cottage (sigh) Married (sigh) me and Alf (sigh)

(Heidi and Susheel jump around in happiness)(Meg stops)

Meg: Your Father, My lady .Would he? Could he? Could you?

 

Catherine: I knew what she was trying to ask. While Meg finished coaxing the cows I went to coax my father .I found him in the hall with his breakfast bread and ale, frowning at odd William, lying between himself and the warmth of the fire ……Sir, the morning dawns fair.I hope it find you well

Father: Slurp

Catherine: for certain …Perkins Granny is in heaven this day, watching over us all I know God would want her with him, so good he was and generous .God ever rewards the generous.

Father: Slurp

Catherine: Generous as she was I know she would want to share  what she had with the others left behind like her warmest mantle with the miller her empty cottage with about to be weds .


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