“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I see the name Sarah Wellington. She was in a cobbler’s shop—that’s where they make shoes.

(They had windows in the front room, though—and benches and a stone floor. It was a stone house with a fireplace in it. It was September, damp and foggy in the afternoon, about four o’clock. Sarah Wellington was blond—she had stringy hair, she wasn’t pretty, but bony. She was 17.

(Her father and mother weren’t there. Sarah didn’t live there, she was just in there. She lived 3 doors away. How long did she live? She died at 17, there in the cobbler’s shop. She died from burns. The cobbler came out of a back room into the front room and there she was, all in flames and screaming. The cobbler shoved her out in the street and rolled her over on the stones and in the dirt, but she died.

(Sarah lived 3 doors down the street in a dark front room. She had two brothers, one off someplace, he was a sailor. The other was younger. Sarah’s father did something for the cobbler, so he made shoes for the young brother and she was in the shop to get the shoes.

(I don’t know what Sarah’s father did for the cobbler. It was a craft, something he bartered for shoes. Something to do with fishing nets. The village was right by the sea. It was the only cobbler’s shop in quite a few villages around there, and there was a lot of community bartering going on. Sarah’s father made fishnets out of seaweed, dried seaweed, sounds crazy, doesn’t it? They wove it together like rope, then made the nets.

(Albert did okay. He got married, and his wife’s name was Sarah too. She was a cousin of Sarah Wellington. There were lots of cousins in the village. Most of the people were related, they had no place else to go.

(Albert and Sarah had 4 children. Two died when they were babies. Those that lived were Billy and Jane.

(The people didn’t go to London often. Some never went at all. The first Sarah who died at 17 never went. Albert’s Sarah went. King Edward was in London then. Albert and Sarah did well and could afford to go. When Edward was being crowned they went to London. They didn’t see the coronation, they were just common people but they wanted to be there. Everybody was excited.

(In London, I don’t know why, Albert’s wife liked to go to the bakery shops. They had fancier breads there than they did in the village. I’ll figure out why I want to call Albert Ralph. The bakery always smelled good. Sarah liked to eat a lot.

(And Sarah, the first one, if she hadn’t burned to death she would have died anyhow at 17. It’s so funny, but she had tuberculosis. One lung was bad. It was a bad place to live. The village wasn’t sunny, and they kept the windows closed. There weren’t many windows anyhow. The land was very rocky, and they just would build a house on a slab of rock, and it was always damp. They had dogs and cats.

(Young Sarah’s dress was dirty. It was of wool, and a brown natural color because it wasn’t dyed. It wouldn’t have burned so, but it had grease on it, the grease caught the flames.