Like many fools and jesters, Tom was a valued and trusted servant of the Pennington family, entertaining them with a mixture of practical jokes and wit. It all began when the lovely daughter of Sir Alan Pennington of Muncaster Castle, had disguised herself as a shepherdess and attended the May Day festivities in order to meet her secret lover, Richard the Carpenter. And the next day while the unsuspecting carpenter was taking an after dinner nap, and dreaming probably of the incomparable beauties of his adorable Helwise, Tom entered the shed, and with one blow of the axe severed the carpenters head from his body. When the jester dragged carpenter’s body out of the room, he met the Pennington’s daughter and smirked, throwing the severed head to her feet, as if it was a ball.

There, I have hid Dick’s head under a heap of shavings, and he will not find that so easily, when he awakes.