Ithreth

A broadside · posted in the Tally

By the House, This Market-Day

Peeled from a post in the Tally at fair-time, with the house's leave, which cost a coin. (witnessed)

By the house, this market-day: lots attested unless marked (held, the house)

  1. Lot 1 A salt crock, Fen glaze. Empty: the household kept its salt, as households do. (held, the house)
  2. Lot 2 A cooper's mallet, two hands held. The method went with it to the apprentice, and does not come with the lot. (held, the house)
  3. Lot 3 Told honey, six jars. The hive was told forty years; its telling-history is bound in. (held, the house)
  4. Lot 4 Withdrawn. A fade-cloth coat, washed nearly grey, posted in error. The family asks that nobody hurry it. (told, the family)
  5. Lot 5 Orphan keys, eighteen, from a locksmith's wall on the east road, the where-found tags attached. The customary blessing applies: may one of them be yours. (held, the house)
  6. Lot 6 A household book, three generations of recipes, each written out complete but for one step. The steps are not included, and are not for sale. (held, the house)
  7. Lot 7 A portrait of a harbor-master, painted looking at something out of the frame. The family says it is the harbor. The house has not seen the harbor, and enters it so. (told, the family)
  8. Lot 9 Wrist-cords, plain, by the dozen, for newcomers. A cord holds nothing until somebody ties it. (told, the cord-maker)
  9. Lot 10 Lamp oil by the jar, for novices going down at the Tidepools. At cost, to anyone wearing a new cord. (witnessed)
  10. Lot 11 Withdrawn. A carter's road-lamp, sold by one brother and wanted back by the other. The house has not asked why. (witnessed)

Lots the house holds are marked -mun. Anything the house has only been told is marked so, and priced so. (held, the house)

The house holds what it sells only until it is sold. (held, the house)

Bids in marks, struck coin, at the house's table, from the second bell. (witnessed)

Everything is worth what someone will hold it for. (told, the Tally)