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I may have an inkling... 😆

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Miss Janie's Girls by Carolyn Brown

Date Read: 29/10
Pages: 300
Rating: ****

Spell out
C - Author
B - Author
Characters:
N � Noah
S � Sara
J - Jane
K � Kayla
S � Sam
T � Teresa

Bonus - First published July 28, 2020

The Administrative Mini Challenge
- the main character works in an office - Noah is a private investigator
- cover colour is at least 50% grey - 74.1% according to Tineye

Seems like we have some really good picks for BOM this round. I think I'll participate in one or two.

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Book: The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout
Date: 10/28/24
Pages: 318

Bonus
pub 1935

Mini
butter - pg 146 "bread and butter"
chicken - pg 115 "some chicken feed"
bean - pg 150 "It's in Cramer's bean."
apple - pg 124 "if you eat the apple."
pest control - fighter GH
author initials in shredding

Spell-out
T/L - title
R/S - author
N - Nero Wolfe
A - Andrew Hibbard
E - Evelyn Hibbard
O - Orrie Cather

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Book: Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas
Date: 10/28/24
Pages: 384

Bonus
pub 1994

Mini
bread - pg 310 "is there any bread to go with tea?"
chicken - pg 290 "and chicken breasts rolled in..."
fish - pg 131 "doused a fish in the wrong sauce."
carrot/onion - pg 184 "..cutting carrots, turnips and onions into small pieces"
peach - pg 98 "the peach gown"

Spell-out
L - AFN
S - Sara
I - Ivo
R - Lady Raiford
P - Perry

SandyL wrote: "Completion Post


Book: The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout
Date: 10/28/24
Pages: 318"



Can you add this one to your Wheel shelf, please? Thanks!

done - sorry!

Eldarwen wrote: "BOM Threads for November have gone up!

If you're interested in reading those books, please do sign up! Participation points make a fair bit of difference (20points per book) and if we get discussi..."

I can do the Christie one... I was thinking I'd read it recently, but I looked and it was over a year ago so I'm good!

How do we sign up for it? Here on the thread, on the BOTM thread, or what?

If you're volunteering for a chance to write DQs (discussion questions), you need to do it on the discussion thread.

/topic/show/...

If you don't want to write them (we get an extra 40 points if one of us gets chosen), then you can just head over to the thread when you're reading to answer the discussion questions and get the extra 20 points for doing so 😊

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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Date Read: 10/30/2024
Pages: 514
Rating: 4��

Bonus:
Published July 2, 1814
400+ pages

Author: A
Characters:
E - Edmund (CFN)
P - Price (CLN)
T - Thomas (CFN)
N - Norris (CLN)
R - Rushworth (CLN)

Gardening
Prune: can be cut to reveal a different word of at least 2 letters (“Field� or “Man�)

Bonus: Violin - Loc 1748 “…built on the late acquisition of a violin player in the servants' hall…�

Feeding the family:
Bread - Loc 107 “…while I had a bit of bread to give her?�

Bonus: Vinegar - Loc 1072 “Suppose you let her have your aromatic vinegar�

Hmm, all these extra points for various bonuses are an incentive to finally read Mansfield Park hehe.

I may have to squeeze that one in ;-)

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Book The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
Date: 30/oct/24
Pages: 338

Bonus - 20 March 2018

Admin
letters GREY in title

coffee table - "He had put down his cup and was staring at the glass coffee table," 34%

Gardening mini
Germinate: word in title is 6 or more letters long (claimed) - broken
Plant: word in title is exactly 5 letters - girls
Prune: word in title can be cut to reveal a different word of at least 2 letters (e.g PRUNE - RUNE / AFFAIR - FAIR) - broken = broke

violin " Violin music rose over the static and wafted tinnily through the room" 42%

Feed mini
pasta: " She dug in the fridge and found pasta and meat sauce, cold." 25%
bread, beef, potatoes, corn "Today's dinner was beef, mashed potatoes, creamed corn, and a sticky-sweet bread that CeCe thought was supposed to be cornbread, but it tasted like nothing at all." 18%
rice "the other of Vietnamese women in a rice field" 13%
apple "Her father didn't approve of Fiona's chosen field, the stories about the right yoga poses for stress and how to make mini apple pies in a muffin tin" 14%
lettuce "We are going to add lettuces to our planting next spring." 48%
Sugar "Perhaps she was putting sugar and milk in her tea." 54%

Spell out - utility repair person

Title - The

CN - Sonia, Roberta, Miss London. Anthony Eden

Bookcover:
Book: Dombey and Son
Date Read: 30 oct
Pages: 880
Rating: 4.5 stars

Bonus:
- pub January 1, 1848
- over 800 pages

Mini:

ADMIN:
-Grey Cover
- the main character works in an office
FOOD: (+ lobster)
- Beef "ham and beef shop" p63
- Onion "against her feelings and the onions" p230
- Grape "We shall gather grapes from thorns and figs from thistles" p615
- Fig "We shall gather grapes from thorns and figs from thistles" p615
- Salt "Something else done to him with salt" p100
- pepper "and had received pepper" p592
- Sugar "Who took milk and who took sugar" p254
- spice "That spice of the marvellous" p663


Spell out:

Char: Paul Dombey
Nar: Owen Teale

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Book: Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
Date: 10/30/24
Pages: 336

Bonus
pub 1969

Mini
pumpkin - loc 29 "a large yellow pumpkin"
apple - loc 57 "what lovely apples."

Spell-out
A/O - Ariadne Oliver
S - Superintendent Sence
R - Rowena Drake
E - Miss Emlyn
N/R - Nicholas Ransome
P - Hercule Poirot

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Book: Love Me
Date Read: 30/10
Pages: 183
Rating: 3/5

Bonus:
Published in 2016


Spell-Out:
L- title
A - character Aaron
T - character Trent

Overflow for now

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Book:Dear Grumpy Boss
Date Read: 30/10
Pages: 414
Rating: 3.5/5 stars

Bonus:
+400 pages

Spell-Out:
E, L - character Elise Levy
S - character Saoirse
A - character Weston Aldrich
T - character Thomas



Mini:
Office romance

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Date: 30th Oct 2024
Pages: 360
Rating: 2.5-3 stars because fun and autumn themed but not an insta-love theme

Spell Out
P- The Pumpkin Spice Cafe
L- author first name Laurie
N- Norman (character)

Mini
G12- Plant: word in title is exactly 5 letters- Spice is 5 letters
G18: Prune: word in title can be cut to reveal a different word of at least 2 letters (e.g PRUNE - RUNE / AFFAIR - FAIR)- PUMPKIN- Pump/Kin/pumpkin
F22- Apple in text- page 249: "anything made with apples or pumpkins or cinnamon-spiced"
F12- pumpkin in text- page 249: "anything made with apples or pumpkins or cinnamon-spiced"

Bookcover:
Book: A Corpse at St Andrews Chapel
Date Read: 30 oct
Pages: 300
Rating: 2 stars

Bonus:
- pub October 23, 2009

Mini:

GARDEN:
- #2 in series
- Pest Control (ST)
- Prune (AND/REWS, CHAP/EL etc)

Spell out:

Title: A
Auth: S
Char: Kate Paxton

*on overflow*

SandyL wrote: "Completion Post


Book: Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
Date: 10/30/24
Pages: 336

Bonus
pub 1969

Mini
pumpkin - loc 29 "a large ..."

Sandy, could you add a read date to this please?

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Book In the Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace
Date- 30/Oct/24
Pages - 336

Bonus October 19, 2021

admin
the clue to solving a murder is found in paperwork - clues in a letter with fathers wishes helps solve the murder as it explains the true intent behind leaving it to the olderest daughter only. Also, Connie changed who could be buried in the family burial plot which was the motive of the murder.

bonus - "Beatty smiled at Izzy as she placed the tray of freshly brewed coffee and dulce de leche cookie sandwiches on the glass-topped coffee table." 5%

gardening
Trellis (series sequence) 1 - first in the Evenfall Witches B&B series

bonus - "... heard the recorded piano music coming from the open windows of the dance hall just ahead."17%

Feed mini

beef - "I quashed that beef years ago." 63%
chicken/beans "Roast chicken, mashed potatoes, freshly baked rolls, crisp green beans in lemon butter sauce." 52%
apple "Bite into a ripe apple" 17%
peach - "There is even a peach pie for dessert." 52%
spice - "Fist pumpkin spice of the season" 14%

Spell out utility repair person

Title - In

AN - Auralee
CN - Evanora, Nixie, Rip, Liz

Bookcover:
Book: Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon
Date Read: 31 oct
Pages: 668
Rating: 4 stars (I absolutely love this series!)

Bonus:
- pub January 1, 2012
- Over 600 pages

Mini:

ADMIN:
- letters TAXES in title
- letters ADMIN in title
GARDEN:
- #3 in series
- Brown cover
- Weed (mOOn)
- Prune (EXP/EDITION, MOUNT/AINS, MOO/N, etc.)
FOOD: (+Lobster)
- "spill the beans" p186
- "His fish scale battery suit" p255
- "Chickens and vegetables and porridge" p283
- "fields of rice, holcus, sugar cane and peas" p287
- "A massive fig tree" p350
- "smelling salts and a dash of brandy" - p406
- "The major general's adam's apple bobbed reflexively" - p438


Spell out:

Title: E
Char: Richard Francis Burton, Algernon Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, William Trounce, Prime Minister Palmerston, Nathaniel Lawless,

Bookcover:
Book: Hallowe'en Party
Date Read: 31 oct
Pages: 336
Rating: 3 stars

Bonus:
- pub November 1, 1969

Mini:

GARDEN:
- #41 in series
- Weed (hallowE'En)
- Prune (HALL/OWEEN, PAR/TY, etc.)
FOOD:
-pumpkin - loc 29 "a large yellow pumpkin"
-apple - loc 57 "what lovely apples."

Spell-out
A/O - Ariadne Oliver
S - Superintendent Sence
R - Rowena Drake
E - Miss Emlyn
N/R - Nicholas Ransome
P - Hercule Poirot

*on overflow*

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Utility Repair Person


Book: Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
Date Read: 31st October
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 336


Bonus:
first published November 1, 1969


Spell-out
R - character: Rowena Drake
E - character: Miss Emlyn
P - character: Hercule Poirot
A - character: Ariadne Oliver
S - character: Superintendent Spence
O - character: Ariadne Oliver


Mini Challenges:
Gardening:
- Prune: Hallow or ween (from Halloween)

Feeding the Family:
- pumpkin - p. 1: "a large yellow pumpkin"
- apple - p. 2: "what lovely apples"

Seems like we all had the same idea for Halloween ;-))

Since I was working from home today and had absolutely zero to do, this was a lovely way to pass the time hehe.

I'm pretty sure Sandy and I read it because it's on one of the listopias for Turf Wars 😆

Eldarwen wrote: "Seems like we all had the same idea for Halloween ;-))

Since I was working from home today and had absolutely zero to do, this was a lovely way to pass the time hehe."

Maybe I should follow in the trend. haha. Today seems like the perfect day ;)

It has a pretty good publication bonus... �

Sammy wrote: "I'm pretty sure Sandy and I read it because it's on one of the listopias for Turf Wars 😆"

I actually borrowed it from Overdrive when this challenge started (for the pub date) and was happy to find it on the TW list since my loan was just about to expire

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Book: Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure by Diane Kelly
Date: 10/31/24
Pages: 341

Bonus
pub 2011

Mini
A6 - MC Tara Holloway is an IRS tax agent and a CPA
A15 - TAXES in title

Spell-out
T - Tara
E - Brett Ellington
L - Lu Lobozinski
R/O - Ross O'Donnell
A/S - Alicia Shenkman

SandyL wrote: "Sammy wrote: "I'm pretty sure Sandy and I read it because it's on one of the listopias for Turf Wars 😆"

I actually borrowed it from Overdrive when this challenge started (for the pub date) and was..."

Absolutely perfect timing then!

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Book: Tweet Cute
Author: Emma Lord
Pages: 381
Date read: 10/30/24
Rating: 3 stars

Bonus:
Published January 21, 2020

Spell-Out:
E,L: AFN, ALN
T: Title
P: Ch Pepper

Gardening Mini:
Weed: Title contains double E
pg. 233: piano classes for a month

Feeding the Family Mini:
Chicken: pg 334: Don't chicken out now.
Fish: pg 35: My parents are going to gut me like a f*cking fish.
Broccoli: pg. 155: broccoli with more gusto than necessary.
Squash: pg. 52: squash the part of me that takes it personally.
Tomato: pg. 113: tomato into her mouth.
Apple: pg. 73: apple jam, and honey mustard.
Banana: pg. 288: banana pudding
Salt: pg. 258: salt, cocoa powder, eggs
Pepper is the FMC's name
Sugar: pg 49: sugar and milk

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Bookcover:

Book: One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Date Read: 29 Oct 2024
Pages: 349
Rating: 3.5/5

Bonus:
First published June 7, 2016


Mini:
Feeding the family:
(Claimed) Lettuce - �...the bacon being hot and the lettuce being sweet.� Chap. 27
Bonus: Lobster - �...bottle of wine, maybe lobster.� Chap. 31

Potato - �...Parmesan cheese on potatoes.� Chap. 2
Rice - “Like rice puddings and pistachio ice cream type stuff.� Chap. 14
Bread - �...softly buttering the bread...� Chap. 23
Chicken - �...teriyaki chicken from the food court.� Chap. 2
Fish - �...not a fish.� Chap. 5
Tomato - “I can smell tomato soup.� Chap. 23
Salt - “with the salt of the ocean� Chap. 6
Sugar - “I’m in a sugar coma.� Chap. 1
Spice - �...just a little bit of spice.� chap. 23


Spell-Out:
T - AFN Taylor Jenkins Reid
L - CLN Jesse Lerner
E - CFN Emma Blair
A - CFN Ashley
S - CFN Sam Kemper
O - Title

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Bookcover:

Book: The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen
Date Read: 29 Oct 2024
Pages: 645
Rating: 4/5

Bonus:
400+ pages


Mini:
Feeding the family:
Fish - 5% "undersized fish back into the ocean."
Salt- 34% "wipe the salt water out of my stinging eyes"


Spell-Out:
Title: T
Author: A- Abigail: O- Owen
Characters: L- Lyra, R- Rima, P- Persephone

christene_littlelibrary wrote: "Completion Post - Round Two

Bookcover:

Book: The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen
Date Read: 29 Oct 2024"


Could we please get a page/location/chapter reference for the food items?

Thanks! :-)

SandyL wrote: "Completion Post


Dirty Little Midlife Debacle by Lilian Monroe
Date: 10/27/24
Pages: 348"



Sandy,

I'm getting back to this one. My previous message seems to have gotten lost.

Is there any way we can make this work for the Admin mini?
That's the mini challenge where coffee table is the bonus word. It would be a shame if we couldn't use it.

(If that task is already completed, doesn't matter! We can move things around.)

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Book: It by Stephen King

Date: 01/11/24
Pages: 1116

Bonus
Pub in 1986
Over 800 pages

Spell-out
I- Title
S,K - Author
P - Pennywise the Dancing Clown
B, D - Bill Densborough
R, T - Richie Tozier
E, K - Eddie Kaspbrak
S,U - Stan Uris,
B, H - Ben Hanscom,
B,M - Beverly Marsh
M, H - Mike Hanlon
H, B - Henry Bowers

Mini - Feed the family
Beef - ligaments looked like cuts of cheap beef - Loc 5%
Lamb - “washed in the blood of the lamb�. - Loc 27%
Squash - he had played squash - Loc 11%
Tomato - her dripping tomato nose - Loc 55%
Onion - partial to peanut-butter-and-onion sandwiches - Loc 24%
Cucumber - Lal says, just as cool as a cucumber - Loc 57%
Peach - A Jawja peach, a cawse.� - Loc 5%
Sugar - like a kid committing suicide by sugar - Loc 15%
Spice - he could smell cinnamon and spice, - Loc 19%

Hahaha, now that is a brick!

And an excellent one at that!

Eldarwen wrote: "christene_littlelibrary wrote: "Completion Post - Round Two

Bookcover:

Book: The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen
Date R..."

Done. Sorry

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Book The Orphan Girl by Chrissie Walsh
Date- 1/Nov/24
Pages 352

Bonus - 11/nov/21

Admin Mini
the main character works in an office - Rosie works in her "uncle's" office


Feed mini
lamb "check on the stringy lamb shanks she was roasting in the oven" 23%
chicken "he said waving a chicken leg under her nose." 21%
onions "the sharp tang of frying onions curdled his guts." 2%
salt "Rosie added a generous pinch of salt to the root vegetables"33%
sugar "Then she added two even more generous spoonfuls of sugar to Godfrey's" 38%
spice "she herself objected to having to make do with cheap cuts of meat and being without spices" 11%

Spell out -
utility repair person

Title - Orphan
CN - Celia Asquith, Rosie Nobody/Threppleton, Peter, Eli Simmonite, Hortense Leger

Eldarwen wrote: "Hahaha, now that is a brick!"

Totally, but so worth all those pages. One of my favourite books of all time :) hence why I have been AWOL for a while LOL

Bookcover:
Book: Pumpkins in Paradise
Date Read: 1 nov
Pages: 234
Rating: 1 stars

Bonus:
- pub September 25, 2013

Mini:

ADMIN:
- letters ADMIN in title
- cover colour is at least 50% orange (Light orange or dark yellow?)
GARDEN:
- #1 in series
- Prune (PUMP/KINS, PAR/ADISE)
- If not orange cover, yellow for flowers
FOOD:
- "Creamy mashed potatoes" ch 11

Spell out:

Title: P
Char: TJ Jensen, deputy Long, Ashley


*on overflow*

Eldarwen wrote: "SandyL wrote: "Completion Post


Dirty Little Midlife Debacle by Lilian Monroe
Date: 10/27/24
Pages: 348"



San..."

Sorry if I missed this - I'll check and get back to you

@Eldarwen - I checked, but both MC"s are cooks/chefs and it's about a baking contest. But! I just finished a book that I'm going to post in a moment where the MC does work in an office and it has coffee table in it. So if you can use that one, great. If not, no worries.

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Pretend You're Mine by Lucy Score
Date: 10/31/24
Pages: 480

Bonus
>400 pgs
pub 2015

Mini
MC Harper works in an office
coffee table - pg 233 "Harper snatched her phone off the coffee table
prune - pretend = end
potato - pg 143 "the potato and pasta salads"
beef - pg 108 - "the cold roast beef sandwich"
chicken - pg 38 "excellent chicken pot pie"
fish - pg 38 "what's with the fish?"
broccoli - 'g 354 "he ate all the pesticide-laden broccoli"
tomato - pg 109 "and ripe tomato"
peach - pg 49 "slices of peach pie"
banana - pg 298 "inhaled the banana"

Spell out
L/S - Author name
T/A - Ty Adler
I - Ina Morretta
P - Gloria Parker

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Book:Touch the Dark
Date Read: 31/10
Pages: 307
Rating: 3/5 stars

Bonus:
Published in 2006


Spell-Out:
T - Title
P - character Cassandra Palmer
R - character Rafe
L - character Louis-César

Mini:

gardening prep - 1st in series
Food :
Chichen 12% (Not that his level mattered; if he felt like it, any master could have me clucking like a chicken with little more than a glance.)
Sugar 5% (Most of the time she was sugar sweet, but get her upset at you and things could get bad fast.)

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Book:The Hollow Places
Date Read: 1/11
Pages: 351
Rating: 4/5 stars

Bonus:
Published in 2020

Spell-Out:
T - Author T. Kingfisher
E - character Earl
S - character Simon


Mini:

Garderning - prune - Places / laces
Food:
Chicken 7% (“I love this place,� one of them confessed, a shaggy-haired woman with a bull ring in her nose and a T-shirt that said I � CHICKENS.)
Broccoli 13% (I punched in the number for Panda Palace and recklessly spent my last gig’s earnings on beef lo mein and broccoli and pork fried rice.)
tomato 73% (I didn’t particularly want to fend off a rabid raccoon, but a rabies shot seemed minor compared with having to hose down half the museum with tomato juice.)
salt 79% (It could sit next to the rubber bands and the manual for the old microwave and a couple of salt packets from a fast-food restaurant. )
sugar 15% (“It was on sugar cubes,� he said glumly.)

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Book:Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
Date Read: 31/10
Pages: 160
Rating: 3.5/5 stars

Bonus:

Spell-Out:
S - author Seanan McGuire
A - character Antsy
E - Eleonor

Overflow for now

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Book:Woven by Gold
Date Read: 1/11
Pages: 576
Rating: 4/5 stars

Bonus:
+400 Pages book

Spell-Out:
R, O - FMC Rosaline O'Connell
E - Author Elizabeth Helen
L - character Lucas
A - character Astrid

Mini:

Graderning prep - 2nd in series
Bloom +50% brown
Prune - Woven / Oven or Gold / Old

Food:
Salt 18% (The steam rises from the surface, carrying the scent of salt and citrus.)
Pepper 33% (“The blend is simple: nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, pepper—â¶Ä�)
Spice 33% (“No, no, no, pumpkin spice has been recorded in human history since 1675,� Papa says.)

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Book:Illumination Of Ursula Flight
Date Read: 1/11
Pages: 416
Rating: 2/5 stars

Bonus:
Published in 2018
+400 Pages book

Spell-Out:
U - character Ursula Flight
I - title
A - author Anna-Marie Crowhurst
S - Samuel


Mini:

Garden - Pest Control GH
- Prune Illumination / Nation, Flight / Light

Food:
Onion 33% (Beck was as slovenly a wench as I had ever seen, with a broad country accent, brown teeth and a strong odour of onions. )
Grape 44% (There were purple grapes and brown dogs; green trees and golden goblets)
Pepper 18% (She stirred her dish of oysters and bade me pass the pepper.)
Sugar 11% (I knew that she had a very sweet tooth, on account of not having sugar at home.)
Spice 46% (which she dabbed on her gums each time she passed a looking glass, perfuming the air with spice even as she grumbled at the pain. )
EXTRA VINEGAR 90% (Next, some juice of myrrh mixed with sweet marjoram and some water pimpernel which you will need to fry in vinegar, and then � ha � put under as a � ha � pessary, do you understand me?)