The Midwife's Appprentice
The Midwife's Appprentice
Chapter 1 The Dung Heap
When animal droppings and garbage and spoiled straw are piled up in a great heap, the rotting and moiling give forth heat.
Usually no one gets close enough to notice because of the stench.
But the girl noticed and, on that frosty night, burrowed deep into the warm, rotting muck, heedless of the smell.
In any event, the dung heap probably smelled little worse than everything else in her life
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