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Dec 21, 1299
First Day of Winter
The season of snow! -
Period: Dec 21, 1299 to Dec 21, 1300
Chapters 1-7
the chapters are a blazing
the chapters
the chapters -
Jan 3, 1300
Brat Sleeps in the Dung Heap
Chapter 1, Page 1: "But the girl noticed, and, on that frosty night, burrowed deep into the warm, rotting muck, heedless of the smell." -
Jan 3, 1300
Jane Takes Brat/Beetle In
Chapter 1, Pages 3 and 4: "Get up, then, girl. You do put me in mind of a dung beetle burrowing in that heap. Get up, Beetle, and I may yet find something for you to do." -
Jan 20, 1300
Beetle Saves The Cat
Chapter 2, Page 7: "Damn you, cat, breathe and live, you flea-bitten sod, or I'll kill you myself." -
Feb 25, 1300
Beetle Helps Jane with her Job
Chapter 3, Page 8: "When they were called, she accompained the midwife to any cottage where a woman laboured to birth her baby, provided that woman could pay a silver penny or a length of newly woven cloth or the best layer in the hen house." -
Mar 20, 1300
First Day of Spring
Flowers are blooming now! -
Apr 5, 1300
Beetle Helps Give Birth to Kate's Baby
Chapter 3 Page 10: "Kate was labouring in the field, not at plowing or sowing or weeding but at making a way for her baby into the world." -
Apr 24, 1300
Beetle Discovers Jane and the Baker's Affair
Chapter 4, Page 12: "Jane Sharp and the basker fell to such furious hugging and kissing, and him with a wife and thirteen children in their cottage behind the ovens, that the startled Beetle fell right out of the tree." -
May 29, 1300
Beetle Attempts to Help the Miller's Wife Give Birth
Chapter 4, Page 14, "By the bones of Saint Cuthburt, they have sent me a nitwit! You lackwit! No brain! You think to touch me!" -
Jun 21, 1300
First Day of Summer
It's a bright sunshiny day! -
Jul 5, 1300
Beetle Goes to the Saint Swithin's Day Fair
Chapter 5, Pages 17 and 18: "She passed through the forest of bright booths with flags and pennants flying, offering for sale every manner of wondrous thing- copper kettles, rubies and pearls, ivory tusks from mysterious animals, cinnamon and ginger from faraway lands, tin from Cornwall, and bright-green woolen cloth from Lincoln. -
Jul 5, 1300
Beetle Names Herself Alyce After a Mistake
Chapter 5, Page 19: "Course you are." The man leaned over and peered closely into Beetle's eyes. "Wait," he shouted, spraying her with spit, "You're not Alyce! You look like Alyce." -
Jul 6, 1300
Alyce Names the Cat Purr
Chapter 6, Page 22: "Purr" the cat responded. "Clotweed? Shrovetide? Wimble?" "Purr;" the cat responded. "Horsera-" "Purr," the cat demanded. "Purr?" Beetle asked. "Purr," the cat responded. And that was that. -
Aug 13, 1300
Alyce Saves Will From Drowning
Chapter 6, Page 25: "Grab it, Will." she said. And he grabbed it. Slowly, slowly he pulled himself along the branch until, from his pulling and Beetle's weight, it cracked, and they both fell onto the riverbank. -
Sep 22, 1300
First Day of Autumn
Now there's a nip in the air! -
Oct 24, 1300
Alyce Gets Revenge on Her Tormentors
Chapter 7, Page 30: And so it was that all (except the fortunate midwife) who had taunted or tormented Alyce was punished for their secret sine. After this, the Devil was never seen in the village again, and no one but Alyce knew why.
