Wīf stilþ mūþ þæs lēon, hire handflata fæste geþrȳcced swā hēo þæt nīeten līþode, ac sēo anlīcnes āslyt. On worulde ymbhwyrfdre strengu tīehþ se gripe nā tō līþienne ac tō bebēodenne. Mildnes hielt tō nīede. Hit is gebǣre þe mearca lǣfþ, swā þring gehæftes tō nēah gecnottedes tō unstille horse, þæs nīetenes orþ smæl under his getæcunge. Sum āmǣned tō lǣdenne onginnþ tō hæftienne. Se wyrtūn behindan hire forweornaþ on hǣte middæges, þæt gærs drȳge and getreden under manigum bōtum, þā sceadwa lange and wyrttrumlēase.
Begeondan þā sceawunge, þǣr spell þurh windscræpene næssas hwisprþ, wundon crætfare hwīlum heora weg andlang ealdra wega, ǣlc sēamere geþrȳcced mid byrþenum þe tō trēowenum crætum wǣron gebundene. Be dēagendum lēohte unfæstnodon wegfarende sadolpūsa, heora handa rūge and gewisse, and legdon hīe on dūst be sīdan fȳre. Gēarhund swylcra færelda habbaþ smale lāstas forlǣten, on eorþan gecorfene mid hōfum, mid heft gōda, mid þringe tīde. Þæs wegfarendes sadol, gelīned mid hȳde þe on smēoce and on swāte wæs gebēowed, wierþ būgende mid brūce ac tōspringþ under forlǣtennesse oþþe þonne hē tō micel tō berenne biþ genīeded. Þæt ealde leþer cyrnþ on wiþerstande, swā gemynd tō manigra mīla þā seamas tīgden. On stalu and on berum þǣr þās lāf hangap, wunaþ stenc eorþan and nīetenes, and mid him lār geþyldes þe þearf is tō bētenne þæt þe wērig is.
On mearcum tūnes stent cōperes wyrcstōw open tō lāne. Innan restaþ hefig fatu riht, hringas on stede gehamrode, heora stafas tōgædere swā fæste geþrȳccede þæt nān dropa ne mæg flēon. Þæs cōperes hamor, smēþe āwered mid weolcum handflatum, cnysseþ on gewegenum rytmum, cnys, cnys, cnys, nīedende þæt ǣlc stæf būge. Tō micel nīed, and þæt wudu tōsplint. Tō lȳtel, and þæt fat lēcc. Se cræftmann wāt þæt sēo ymbhwyrfde carte ætīewþ: þæt ǣlc dǣd scieppunge is ēac dǣd forhæfdnesse, and þæt tō nīedenne is tō frēcnenne tōspringe.
Weder dēopaþ þā lāre. Þǣr sind dagas þonne se wind drȳge of felde blǣwþ, scræpende þæt land, ātēonde ǣlcne dropan wǣtan of eorþan and of hȳde. Þā feldas tōspringaþ. Þā opene wyrttruman trēowa gripaþ þā eorþan, fæste healdende wiþ þǣre nīede. Þā ealdan tūnhūsduru, heora henglas cyrnende, sind belocene wiþ þām winde, ac þæt dūst insīpþ þurh ǣlcne cīnan. On swylcum stormum is se costnung tō þringenne heardor, tō belūcenne þā ēagþȳrel, tō hrēamenne wiþ þām hrēame, ac þæt hūs þurhwunaþ ā þǣr hit būgan sceal, settende mid heft tīde.
Æt ende dæges wunaþ hand on sadolhōfe on getæcrūme, yldende and wacol. Man mæg þæt tōbrocene leþer elian, līþende þæt þe of gēarum weorces stearcode. Ōþer mæg trēowene spon niman, mid his ealdorfæder gecorfenne, and þone briw on cycenfȳre hrēran, geþyldig mid þǣre slāwan hnesce þe smæcc bringþ. Þridda, of feldum hāmcumende, mæg bīdan beforan fate, fingras andlang his gefēgedra ribba yrnende, gefēlende seamas þǣr wæter flēon mihte. Ēac sēo ānfealde dǣd tō sittanne on portice þā hwīle þe dūst on endemestan lēohte settaþ, hlystende mā þonne bebēodende, wierþ andswaru.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Sadolbrūn.
Lucky Color: SaddleBrown — #8B4513Geþyldige handa bētaþ þæt þe nīed tīgde, and būgung is hwīlum sēo sōþoste strengu.