Þǣre cartan bēod, ǣr smēþe wēofod clǣnlīce gesettum tōlum, is nū gebrocen tūnweorcbēod, tōstenced mid þingum dæghwāmlices gewinnes. Se calic is cuppe būtan handfæce, geworpen of lōcalum lāme, gesciepen þurh folman, hire rand tobrocen ac hāl. For gepolishodum gierde is se wōh bōg forcorfen gæres wintra of walhnuttrēowe, his rind gāstlīc mid gæres mēose. Trofel stent for ecge, his ord gebrocen þurh gēar delfunge, and se mynet is ānum gewederod pening, forloren, on poccan gesett, and gefēred þurh unārīmedum handum, nǣfre scīnende ac ā andweard.
On þissum bēode is þæs Drȳs cræft lǣssa be plege, mā be liste. Se bysen nis se plegstōwes lot. Hē is fandung betwēonan nīede. On ealdum racum grundon þā ǣrestan myleneras corn betwēonan stānum, dūst and eln gemengd on þæs hūses lyfte. On handum āwendes Drȳs wierþ se mylenstān duruheald, oþþe setl nēah fȳre. Se hlāfofn, ǣr stōw hweorfunge, þēnaþ nū swā behȳdingstōw hīredes māþma. Þā tōl wuniaþ, ac heora brūcas windaþ and hweorfaþ.
Landfyrhþ edlæcþ þās wrixlunge. On flōdfeldum þæs Nīles timbrodon hīwan hūs of sunbacenum tiglum, heora weallas gemoldene of þǣre ēa dūste. On wudum norþes rīsaþ cotu of bēamum tōgædere genotodum, rind and tyru ūtscildende þone wind. Se wuduflōr self is gelægd mid gæres nǣdlum and lēafum, þicce matta þe āswefþ ǣlcne fōtstæpe. Lotwrencracan sægþ be coyote oþþe foxe, þe behȳdaþ on holum and beswīcaþ þā huntan þurh eftgange ofer wǣtum ofrum, læfende fōtlāstas þǣr wæter nū onbæc wēoll. Se lot nis nīþ. Hē is hrædnes and wīsdōm hū þisse worulde lāfa magon bēon gewende tō brūce.
On hāme is sēo cycene se cræfthūs. Se mortere grint coffebēana, se stenc rīsende swā se pestel cnyssaþ. On ofne wyrceþ hlāf his rinde. Se hlāf biþ tōsliten and gedǣled, ǣlc bite hefig and fēdende. On scele hielt crocc eorþæpplas þæs endenextan wæstmes, heora fella rūhe and gedimpled, bīdende seaxes. Cild cnēowliaþ æt heorþe, brecende hnutu mid ēastānum, delfende æfter þām swētan flǣsce innan. Bōtas æt dura sind þicce mid lāme of feldum, and lengo byrlaþsaccas hangþ bufan heorþe, gearu swā geworht wāgrift þonne sceadwa dēopiaþ.
Weder, ēac, eftsciepþ þæt cūþe. Late on æfterne niþer gāþ wolcnheapas and rēn fealþ fæste. Polas gaderiaþ, and se tūnweg hnescaþ under hefignesse ǣlces stæpes. On þisse gehnescedan worulde nimaþ tōl nīwe þearfa. Gafelforc hlīneþ swā gangstæf, brocen raca underþēodeþ hegg, rind of wuduhēape biþ gedrēod on cīnan scipenes wealles swā se wind wierþ cōl. Eall cūþ biþ gehwirfed, ac nān ne biþ forspilled.
Tōdæg delf on wyrtūnmold mid þīnum handum and læt hire hrepunge wunian on þīnre folman. Briw wyrtruman oþþe berige on hātne drenc and orþa his frōfor. Gā wǣtne lane æfter rēne, and hlyst æfter hnescium hweorfungum under lēafum. Swā niht in tēah, tēoh wyllen hwītel ymb þē, and gefēl ǣlce rūhe brēde and þā racu þe hēo berþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Brūn.
Lucky Color: Brown — #A52A2AÞæt galdor is on þām þe man brūcþ þæt þe man hæfþ, and wyrceþ nīwe, for þæt þe sēo hand hwirfþ wierþ sōþ.