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The Canterbury Tales The Miller

ct, It matchedhis physical traits almost exactly. the Miller was veryboastful in his ways, he would boast to people about how hecould bust any door down and off the hinges, or take a runand break it with his head, he was also a very greedy man,He would steal from the poor, or the rich without eventhinking twice. his thumb of gold was how he did this,meaning, he pressed on the scale with his thumb to increasethe weight of the grain that he sold to his customers, or sothey thought he was selling them. The Miller also had afilthy mouth, and told tavern stories quite often. Also, heliked to play the bagpipes, in fact he was the pilgrim thatled all the pilgrims out of town playing the bagpipes. Well,now that we know the greediness, dishonesty, andboastfullness of the Miller, well talk a little bit abouthis professional trades.Of course, I think we all know what his trade is, itsobviously a miller, He weighed corn and wheat, which heground up into meal and flour for his customers. But mostimportantly when he would weight the peoples corn and wheatout on the scale , he would press down on the scale to makeit seem like he was selling them more meal or flour than heactually was. the Miller was very skilled in cheating thescale. but, overall the miller was very good at his job,even though he cheated his customers.In this review of the Miller, we talked about hisphysical traits, personality, and his professional trades.As we know the Miller was very big and strong, his beard wasred, and had a big wart on the end of his nose. We alsolearned of his boastful personality, how he bragged aboutbusting down doors with his head, and running through themknocking the door of its hinges. The Miller was also a verydishonest and immoral person, the Millers trade wasobviously a miller, he weighed peoples corn and wheat, andground it up for them into meal and flour. He was very goodat this trade, but, he had one flaw, he cheated hiscustomers out of money, by mak...

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