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The season of snow!
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the chapters are a blazing
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Chapter 1, Page 1: "But the girl noticed, and, on that frosty night, burrowed deep into the warm, rotting muck, heedless of the smell."
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Chapter 1, Pages 3 and 4: "Get up, then, girl. You do put me in mind of a dung beetle burrowing in that heap. Get up, Beetle, and I may yet find something for you to do."
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Chapter 2, Page 7: "Damn you, cat, breathe and live, you flea-bitten sod, or I'll kill you myself."
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Chapter 3, Page 8: "When they were called, she accompained the midwife to any cottage where a woman laboured to birth her baby, provided that woman could pay a silver penny or a length of newly woven cloth or the best layer in the hen house."
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Flowers are blooming now!
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Chapter 3 Page 10: "Kate was labouring in the field, not at plowing or sowing or weeding but at making a way for her baby into the world."
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Chapter 4, Page 12: "Jane Sharp and the basker fell to such furious hugging and kissing, and him with a wife and thirteen children in their cottage behind the ovens, that the startled Beetle fell right out of the tree."
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Chapter 4, Page 14, "By the bones of Saint Cuthburt, they have sent me a nitwit! You lackwit! No brain! You think to touch me!"
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It's a bright sunshiny day!
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Chapter 5, Pages 17 and 18: "She passed through the forest of bright booths with flags and pennants flying, offering for sale every manner of wondrous thing- copper kettles, rubies and pearls, ivory tusks from mysterious animals, cinnamon and ginger from faraway lands, tin from Cornwall, and bright-green woolen cloth from Lincoln.
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Chapter 5, Page 19: "Course you are." The man leaned over and peered closely into Beetle's eyes. "Wait," he shouted, spraying her with spit, "You're not Alyce! You look like Alyce."
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Chapter 6, Page 22: "Purr" the cat responded. "Clotweed? Shrovetide? Wimble?" "Purr;" the cat responded. "Horsera-" "Purr," the cat demanded. "Purr?" Beetle asked. "Purr," the cat responded. And that was that.
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Chapter 6, Page 25: "Grab it, Will." she said. And he grabbed it. Slowly, slowly he pulled himself along the branch until, from his pulling and Beetle's weight, it cracked, and they both fell onto the riverbank.
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Now there's a nip in the air!
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Chapter 7, Page 30: And so it was that all (except the fortunate midwife) who had taunted or tormented Alyce was punished for their secret sine. After this, the Devil was never seen in the village again, and no one but Alyce knew why.
