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Mary Webb. Precious Bane
Precious Bane
Table of Contents
Book One
chapter one:Sarn Mere
chapter two:Telling the Bees
chapter three:Prue takes the Bidding Letters
chapter four:Torches and Rosemary
chapter five:The First Swath Falls
chapter six:“Saddle your Dreams before you Ride ’em”
chapter seven:Pippins and Jargonelles
Book Two
chapter one:Riding to Market
chapter two:The Mug of Cider
chapter three:“Or Die in ’tempting It”
chapter four:The Wizard of Plash
chapter five:The Love-Spinning
chapter six:The Game of Costly Colours
chapter seven:“The Maister Be Come”
chapter eight:Raising Venus
chapter nine:The Game of Conquer
Book Three
chapter one:The Hiring Fair
chapter two:The Baiting
chapter three:“The Best Tall Script, Flourished”
chapter four:Jancis Runs Away
chapter five:Dragon-flies
Book Four
chapter one:Harvest Home
chapter two:Beguildy Seeks a Seventh Child
chapter three:The Deathly Bane
chapter four:All on a May Morning
chapter five:The Last Game of Conquer
chapter six:The Breaking of the Mere
chapter seven:
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Mary Webb
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It was a beautiful evening, with swallows high in the air, and a powerful smell of may-blossom. When the bells stopped, ours and the others, we went and looked down into the water, to see if we could get a sight of the village there, as we did most Sundays. But there was only our own church upside down, and two or three stones and crosses the same, and Parson’s pony grazing on its head.
Times, on summer evenings, when the sun was low, the shadow of the spire came right across the water to our dwelling, and I was used to think it was like the finger of the Lord pointing at us. We went down into the marshy places and found plenty of conkers, and Gideon beat Jancis every time, which was a good thing, for at the end he said he’d play Green Gravel, and they were both pleased. Only we were terrible late, and nearly missed Tivvy.
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