On cynestōle stent timber anwealdes, ac nān ne sitt binnan him. Þā micle gefurodan feldas ymbe þone ealdan palant licgaþ ǣmtige, heora ealdan mearce gȳt mid rǣwum gebrytedra tigela gemearcode, lāfe ceastre þe mid rǣde and līne rīcsode. Þā cumbol ofer þǣm geate sind fordwinode, nū ān hrægl, nā leng helmtācn berende. Se lyft bereþ þone drȳgan smæcc īsenes. Se wæferstede healdeþ his hiw, ac scōs ne oferēodon hine tīengum geara. On þissum rīce sind swēgas bebodes mid edlǣce and winde gewrixlede. Se setl is ǣmtig, ac sēo ǣw gǣþ forþ, ǣlc styrunge nū āholod, wæfersīen nānum, and þēah gȳt gedōn.
Begeondan fæstenweallum ārīseþ dūst of þǣm wege þe ǣr cēapmenn and cempan bær, nū ān se wind þā dēopan græfas ceorfeþ þe wænhwēol æfter forlēton. Sēo eorþe hēr is heard, mid lāme oferhroren þe man ǣr tō weallum and croccum brōhte, brocene flānas betwux wēodum tōstencede. On cāfertūne wunaþ ān cornæppeltrēow, his wæstm open berstende on stānum nyþer, sǣd ūt āgotene and on openum lyfte drūgiende. Þis sind lāfe endebyrdnesse, ǣw wæstmes þe būtan tīde fealþ, ānlīce mid ymbhwyrftum crāwena gesewen. Se timber stent, wuniende, ac wærmþe and endebyrdnes sind elles hwǣr gewandode.
Nyþer on cycenum is se lāmofen cōl. On bēode restaþ drȳge hātpipor, gewrinclode and mihtige, tōgædere gestrengede on gemynde wyrtum and symbles. Heora andweardnes is lāf, gemynd þæt ǣr handa mid willan ēodon tō scieppenne, tō fēdenne. Nū hangiaþ þā pipor ungehrinene, and mortere and pilestre sittaþ on bēame, þynne dūstlāgu gaderiende ac gȳt scearpecgede, gearwe þrȳste þe nān ne on āsetteþ. Se ealda clāþ þe þone bēod wrēahþ, on feorrum tūnum handgewefen and mid wyrtruman and lēafe gedēagod, hæfþ his glisan forloren ac wunaþ carefullīce gefealden, gewuna nēatnesse wuniende æfter þǣm þe andgit fordwinode.
Ūte bringþ se æfternōn smæcc tōweardes rēnes. Monsūnwolcn gaderiaþ ofer þǣm ǣmtigan wæccturre, flōd behātende þe gȳt ne cōm. Eall is wēnung, ac ǣw gearwunge oferlīfeþ þā þearfe. Se wæterpytt biþ geclǣnsod, þēah nān wæter ne cume, and þā wæterþēote bēoþ geswōpene flōde þe hīe ne fylþ. Se stenc on lyfte is ābīdunge, lāmes and stānes þe wærmiaþ ǣr þone storm.
On swylcum landscipe mæg man lȳtle dǣda dōn þe edlǣcaþ þæt þe ǣr mæg. Mann mæg handfulle gebrytedra tigela niman and nīwe gemǣre on wyrtūne mearcian, līnan traciende sǣdum þe gȳt ungesāwene sind. Hē mæg þone toslitenan cornæppel gaderian and, mid care, þone wǣtan on boll þrȳccan tō stillum mete. Þā drȳgan pipor magon mid handa bēon gegrundene, heora hāt eft āwacod on ānfealdum briwe. Mann mihte þone ealdan clāþ on æfene þwēan, hine on blǣde drūgian lǣtende, gebǣr gemyndes þǣre wīsan þinga þonne ǣlc styrunge intingan hæfde.
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