Krindlesyke

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A remote shepherd's cottage on the Northumbrian fells holds the Barrasford family's arguments, memories and daily work. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson tells their story through verse dialogue and stage directions, beginning with the elderly Ezra and Eliza waiting for Jim to return with his bride, Phœbe. Ezra's sharp remarks meet Eliza's reflections on the household duties she inherited and must now share with another woman.

The cottage gives these domestic tensions a larger setting: its stone walls and peat fire outlast the people who tend them. In a later conversation, Bell's longing for travel and change clashes with Judith's preference for a quiet home. Local words, comparisons drawn from livestock and food, and competing accounts of marriage make this drama a close study of how people understand the lives they have made.