Witches' Loaves

Witches' Loaves

Made by : group 1
Class : 1 Ihsan

SCENE 1:
MISS MARTHA MEACHAM

• Miss Martha Meacham owns a little bakery.
• Miss Martha was forty, her bank-book showed a

credit of two thousand dollars, and she possessed
two false teeth and a sympathetic heart.

• Two or three times a week a customer would come

to buy stale breads. She began to take an interest in
him. He was a middle-aged man, wearing spectacles
and had a brown beard trimmed to a careful point.

SCENE 1:
THE REGULAR CUSTOMER

• He spoke English with a strong German accent.

His clothes were worn and darned in places, and
wrinkled and baggy in others. But he looked neat,
and had very good manners.

• He always bought two loaves of stale bread. Fresh

bread was five cents a loaf. Stale ones were two for
five. Never did he call for anything but stale bread.

SCENE 2

• Miss Martha saw brown and red stain on his fingers.
• She was very sure that the man was a very poor artist
• She assumed the man would be thinking about her

scrumptious pastries in her bakery

• She was always thinking about the man when she was

eating her tasty meal

SCENE 3

• She wanted to test her theory. She was very sure that the

man was a painter.

• She brought a painting from a sale and set it against the

shelves behind the bread counter.

• After a few days the man came back to buy the usual stale

bread. He saw the painting and commented about it.

• They exchange pleasantries regarding the picture
• Miss Martha was really sure that he is indeed a painter

SCENE 4

• Miss Martha was thinking that she wanted to helped the ‘poor’ ‘painter’
• She was thinking that she wanted to use her saving of 2000 dollars to help

the man

SCENE 5

• The man kept buying the stale bread
• She thought that the man was getting thinner and discouraged
• Her heart ached and wished to add something good for the

man to eat but she failed at the act

• She did not want to hurt the man’s pride
• She began to take care of herself because she began to like the

man

SCENE 6

• One day, the man came back to ask for the stale loaf as usual
• While Miss Martha was reaching for them there was a great

tooting and clanging, and a fire-engine came lumbering past.

• The customer hurried to the door to look, as any one will.

Suddenly inspired, Miss Martha seized the opportunity.

• Unknowingly Miss Martha inserted a generous amount of

butter in the loaves when the man was not looking

• Miss Martha was pleased with what she had done in the same

time she was worried about the man’s reaction

• She kept daydreaming about the man

SCENE 7

• One day, suddenly two men came. One of them was the ‘painter’.
• The painter was furious and started throwing profanity towards Miss Martha
• Miss Martha was dumbfounded. The younger man drag the angry man out

of the bakery

• He then explain to her that the man was a draftsman who was working for

the city hall

• He kept buying stale bread because it is being used as an eraser and

somehow the buttered bread ruined his well drawn plan

• Miss Martha went into the back room. She was feeling frustrated and

dejected