Question

My anxious scribe felt very dull that day; a sheep-bell tinkled nearby, and called my wandering wits after it. What does scribe mean as it is used in this way? mourner bees enemy writer

Answer 1

The answer is: writer.

In the story "The Country of the Pointed Firs," by Sarah Orne Jewett, the narrator is actually a writer from Boston who comes to he village of Dunnet in Maine in order to finish her book. In the excerpt, she struggles to concentrate on her work after attending a funeral and contemplates on the fact that she does not belong in the village.