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Midwife's Apprentice Chapter Summary

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Chapter 16 of Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman begins during a warm, thundery evening. Alyce is working at the inn when a couple of importance arrives with their attendants, but they don’t want any service. The man only wants someone who can cure the stomach worm in his wife’s stomach. However, the stomach worm turns out to be a baby who is about to be delivered, as the inn keeper’s wife, Jenette states. The man doesn’t believe it at first, but soon accepts the fact that his wife will give birth and asks for help. Jenette shows them the way to the village where a midwife lives, but she wasn’t there. All the while, the barren woman is wailing and struggling, yet nobody knows what to do. Soon, everyone lost home that the baby will come and
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