Chapter 51 Wishes or Prayers?

  "Shannon?"

  "Yes Mother?"

Chapter 50 Nobleman in a Peasant's Shoes

  Lord Richard Lionheart had worked long and hard to coax crops from the ground.

  Now he knows how it is for the peasants.

Chapter 49 Fraternity

  When Lord Alexander Lionheart first arrived at college he sought out a fraternity to join.  There wasn't one.  When the plague was at it's worst the colleges had closed down.  The fraternities had never been reestablished.  What is a nobleman to do?  Alexander made a bold move.  He petitioned to begin one.

Chapter 48 Esmerelda's Visitor

  Geoffrey was beat.  He walked good and slow to the shack he called home.  He sighed.  He had thought by the end of his duty as reeve he would have been better off.  At least his heir was in college that was something.

  Geoffrey could hear his wife inside.  Was she talking to herself in her old age?  A few steps closer and he could hear a response - a male response.  Geoffrey felt anger surge in his chest.  He walked more quickly.

  "I am jest so glad ye came to see me!"

  Geoffrey stopped in his tracks.  Esmerelda....she's been having a man visit her?  By her own choice?

  A male voice he didn't recognize murmured something.

  Suddenly the door flew open and the man ran straight into him.

Chapter 47 King Lovejoy Pays a Visit to the Roberts

  Remembrance breathed deeply.

  Picking oranges tasted almost as good as eating them.

Funny Pics #2

  This time I have a scene that takes place before the story begins.  It's a little scene called "After Church" and goes something like this...

  "Chip, don't go up there.  Yer going to get us all in trouble!" Dale hissed at his brother.

  "Come on Dale.  Ma and Pa are yammering with all the rest of 'em."

  "Have you no fear of God?"

  "Fear of God?  I'm going to be preaching for him, right William?"

  "Preachin'!  I thought ye were goin' to-Chip's elbow found William's ribs as quick as can be.

  "Yer goin' to preach to all these people Chip?" Dale asked uncertainly.

  "Nah, jest to ye and William.  So listen up and listen up good."

Chapter 46 Brother Chip

  When Brother Chip has dim memories of living with his parents and his brother when he was very small.  They all lived in a tiny 1 room house.

  When Chip was but a small boy he was chosen to be Boy Bishop.  This is a special honor.  The clergymen would choose a boy in the kingdom to be the Boy Bishop for a time.  He would be the honorary Bishop and would be in charge, along with his closest friends.

  Chip didn't know why he was chosen over his brother Dale.  Chip was the naughty one.  Perhaps that is why...perhaps Father Abraham Wiseman had wanted to teach him a lesson.  He had.  At first he had found it funny, Father Abraham and the other monks humbling themselves before him!  The monks had worked like slaves.

  From sun up to sun down they cleaned, gardened, cooked.  And when they weren't doing that, they worked for the upper class.  They did all kinds of things for them!  Gardened, took care of their animals, cleaned, all kinds of stuff.  The monks worked harder than the peasants, Chip could hardly believe it.  And he set back like a king.  There was a part of this that confused young Chip.  He approached Father Abraham.