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(There was a stable out in back for the horses. They usually had 4 horses on the stage, sometimes 6. And sometimes they used only 2. Just families traveled on the stage. The men went on horses. It was safer that way, sometimes say 4 men would go together in a group.

(The descendants of the invaders lived in the village too. There was the Laverne family, and De Nauge, and the Breims. They slept on hay. It was so damp it wasn’t healthy, it was too foggy. The hay was never dry. There were many children around. Families that could had a cow. Were the people happy? That’s a silly question. They were as happy as anybody else. They didn’t like their babies dying, though, but they just thought it was life. They drank a lot—ale. No school, they couldn’t read. Well, the sexton, he read some but not much, nobody else could. They didn’t think it was necessary. They didn’t have books, so what good did it do to be able to read?

(A few could write. They could write their own names but they couldn’t read others’. Sometimes a family would have a son go away to learn to write. Then he would teach his parents to write their names, but not often.