Here be an extract from ye diary of Milly Richards

HW 23/04/07

Here be an extract from ye diary of Milly Richards:

I has been having a few doubts about marrying dear Tony Kytes. Today I be finding out that I should have been more unsure. I has caught him asking two other girls if they will be his. I is really jealous of those girls, they is more beautiful than I has ever been or will ever be. I can’t really blame Tony for going after other girls. He is a ram and they is all the fields he is going to want to be exploring. It all started as I be walking down to the market.

Today the sun rose early and I knew it would be a splendid day. As I is walking to market it is about noon. The sun is a ball of orange fire, floating in the everlasting oceans of sky. There be no clouds in sight and the birds be singing pleasantly in the trees that be in the wide expanse of fields. I is getting hot and tired when I heard the noise of a cart. Is deciding I do not need to go to the market as it closes by two o’ clock. I is coming up the hill and I hears a commotion coming from inside the cart but I did not stop and mull over it. I hears Tony’s voice from inside and he stops and says hello in a rather pleasant voice. As I saw him all thoughts of the racket I had heard flew from my head like a bird flying away from a cat. My breath caught in my throat as I took in his handsome face. T’was round and determined as well as small. I loved the way his eye had a bright glint in it as he spoke, and the way he was always so serious. It warmed me heart. We had a brief conversation and then I be askin' him if I is having a ride home, and he answers that he thought I would be going to meet me dear mam in the market. I tells him she has just arrived home and so I is then climbing delicately into the cart, like a foal taking his first steps.

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After I was settled, we began to talk about everything until we reached the house of one girl, Hannah Joliver. Tony said she may not take it kindly me being betrothed to him and so he asks me if I minds hiding in the back so I agrees as I has heard what a ferocious beast Miss Joliver can be if she is angry. I hides but only cos I loves Tony. I is just getting comfortable when I hears Tony say she must ride in the cart with him. I was so shocked. He said that he loves me. How could he invite another girl into his cart if he is in love with me? I is thinking that he does not love me anymore like a ram he has gone in search of that next just out of reach field. But like a ram he be returning home once he be bored of exploring the unknown. I is horrified that he would do this. I then hears him say that he has not settled it with me about our day to be wed and about us being wed in the first place. I could not help but make a shrieking noise that could be nothing but me heart screaming in absolute agony from the depths of me very soul. As the conversation continued I do believe I be hearing Tony ask Hannah in no uncertain terms if she be willing to wed him. This declaration made my heart let out an ear- splitting moan that had come from the fiery depths of hell to destroy all who stood in it’s path. I lay curled in an uncomfortable ball on the floor of the waggon of my fiancé and wept until I could shed but no more tears for meself.

A short while later I heard Tony pass the reins to Hannah so that he may speak with his pa. Hannah obliged and that be the worst thing, the way the two of them speak in such loving tones to each other. As I was writhing in the pain and agony of self-pity, I happened by chance to see a foot belonging to another woman. Hundreds of thoughts flew through my head all at once the most prominent one being what I had learnt but that very day. Tony Kytes was a lying flirt of a cheat, he had lied to me about his love he be feeling for me so was it at all possible that he might be a liar about other things. But I is then shaking meself and thinking it be false, Tony may be an abysmal specimen of a man, but he be no murderer. So I creeps along and who is I seeing but Unity Sallet. We began to whisper about how reprehensible we is thinking Tony be. I is more shocked. For a ram to stray to one field is one thing but it be three in one day for Tony. As Unity continued to be talking the dire truth of what she be saying is sinking in to me heart and me head. He no longer loved me, this be all I knew. And now he would marry a cheap easy girl rather than him be with me.

Then it be the most astonishing event of all the day. One minute I is hiding talking with Unity and but a minute later I is flying through the air a mere leaf floating down from the heavens. It is as I be drifting downwards that I has come to me decision about what it be that I is to do. As I landed with a thud in a sharp bush I knew me fate had been sealed.

Tony went to the other two girls and asks if they would be wed to him. They both says no and so when he is asking me I agrees and we is then to be married.

When we be married the ram will never stray again from home. For as soon as we is wed, his home will go and he will never be able to return. I is so upset at how he be treating me that I have decided life married to Tony Kytes is not a life worth living. I be deciding to end my life of misery the night of our wedding. He tells me he is not meaning what he said to the others but I is not believing him and so it is time for him to learn. I must now be saying me final goodbyes. I will go on to live in a better place but Tony will live for many more years with the grief of what he has done.

Jo Gothard 9TM 14:12