On gebrocenum bēode sind þæs Drȳs tōl gelegd, healf forgiten and healf gemyned, gierd, mynet, ecg, and calic. On þisse wendunge rǣcaþ handa æfter þām þe sceolde bēon, and forþbringaþ þæt þe nis. Se drȳ tēah ǣr wæter of lyfte, ac nū lēcþ se hwer and se hætt ālīeseþ ānum dūst. Se dwimor nis leng brycg tō mihte ac mislǣdnes, handplega þe beswīcþ ēac his āgenne galdorcræftigan.
On ealdre worulde oferfōron wegfarendas þæt land nā on fōtum, ac on hrycgum strangra horsa. Heora sadolas wǣron geworhte þurh geþyldigum handum, gesciepene of hȳde nīetena þe cūþon ǣgþer sunnan and rēn. Þæs sadoles setl bær mearca langra færelda: fealdas þǣr se rīdere gesett, scūfingas þǣr tōl hangodon, and se glēam eles ingerēwenes þurh nīed mā þonne þurh īdelwuldor. Under læg hwītel, fæste gewefen, scildiende þæs horses hrycg fram gnīdunge and fram swāte. Ūt on hēam felde, þǣr se wind stanc of drȳgum græse and of ādrorenum lēafum, bær rǣw sæccmulena cysta gemearcode tō feorrum ceapstōwum. Coffe, tobac, and wyrtgemang, swōte on heora byrlaþsaccum, drifon niþer intō leþer, and læfdon stencas þe wunodon þurh tīda.
Ofer sǣ līndon cræftigan on ūtstaþelum heora ceaphūsa weallas mid horsegearwe and mid brīdelum, þām gōdum horscræftes. Sadolwyrhtan worhton stillīce æt bencum, heora seax cnyssiende wiþ ceorfbredum. Sēo lyft bær stenc gelǣcedes hȳdes and bēowæxes. Æt ǣfen swōpon þā leornungcnihtas spōnas on windlas, heora handa gemearcode þurh āþolunge þæs weorces. Þū meaht geseon prentu þæs ealdres tācnes gebærnedne on ǣlcum gefylledum dǣle, behāt āþolunge swā micel swā hīwes.
On wēstene bær þæs hyrdes hām lāfa þisse ilcan worulde. Bōtas, gesmēþode æt hēle, stōdon æt dura, heora sīdan gehnescode þurh manige morgenas on dēawe. Ūt on berne hangode brīdel of pægele, gesciepen þurh hefignesse gēara, stillu gewita cenninge cealfa and gaderunge hwǣtes. Þæs yrþlinges handa, rūhe, hræde, bōtodon cīnan on leþere mid nǣdle and þrǣde, se ryhtm swā fæst swā ǣnig þēaw. Geflēted mid dæges weorcum, wurdon þās þing tōl hweorfunge, ac nū, on wīsan þisse wendedan cartan, oferfōron heora brūcas: brīdel wierþ belt, sadolhwītel setl tō cildes pleghūse.
Weder in gǣþ mid ǣfen, wolcnu hefig mid behāte rēnes þe nǣfre fullīce cymþ. Sēo lyft þiccaþ, berende stenc eorþan and gemynd hōfa gedrēodra dēope on lāme. On blīciendum lēohtfate wyll crocc stēowes on heorþe, his brerd geglēmed þurh rīcne sealt meargbāna and wyrtruma. Trēowen spon, gepolishod þurh gēar hryrunge, resteþ nēah. Sēo cycene, nēah and scildiende, gaderaþ edlǣcunga þæs feldes, stōw þǣr fōda biþ galdrod of þām þe wunaþ, and tōl ānres cræftes þēniaþ ōþrum būtan hrēame.
Tōdæg meaht þū glēman ealde bōta, træcende þā līnan þǣr þæt leþer is geworden hnesce mid brūce, oþþe lācian sacc mid strangum þrǣde, bindende tōgædere þæt þe wæs tōsliten. Þū meaht briwan coffe on croccan on heorþe, and lætan þone stenc fyllan þīn hūs, oþþe settan tīd on sīd tō elienne lēofne trēowenne tol, and āgiefan his scīman and his gemynd. Ǣlc dǣd edlæcþ þæs drȳs gebēacnunge, ac nū is se bysen lȳtel, lot geworden sōþ þurh weorc þīnra handa.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Sadolbrūn.
Lucky Color: SaddleBrown — #8B4513Gā fæste, and læt þæt weorc scieppan his āgen galdor.