Then they walked back to the farmhouse, hand in hand. CHAPTER THREE The wedding was to be on Lady Day, which pro...ed to be sunny and fair. By now Elizabeth had despatched her father to live with some cousins of her husband’s family, and the old man had gone willingly, for there he’d have more company and more folk to tend him. Now with the whole house cleaned and polished, Elizabeth and Beersheba made their way to the Inn where the ceremony was to take. .." ... Really? I hadn't noticed..." Hush up, now, I'm serious here. My eventual estate will be of modest size but a considerable portion of what appear to be my assets are actually held by The Davidson Family Trust so there ain't much I can offer you when I pass on." JD, I really don't care..." Not now, perhaps. But you are young and you will survive me..." JD..." You will, Miss Sullivan, unless there is some unforeseen tragedy. In which case, I will not survive you fo' long." Julius..." She. I assume you have a limited vocabulary, none the less I am impressed. Seeing as you enjoyed our last encounter, this should be more to your liking. Monica and myself have something quite befitting for you. This should be a wonderful appointment.” Her silky accented voice turning me to mush. She leads me into a rather large dental surgery. The chair is more skeletal than it’s modern day counter part, and is further adorned with a belt driven drill. Though antiquities, they look like new. Eyes. The positions of milk-cow and breeder-cow are the only positions that cannot be determined in the branding ceremony. These are determined after impregnation of the whore, which happens generally at 19 years of age. Once the new calf has been born, the decision to make the slave girl a milk-cow or a breeder-cow is based on the swelling of her teets and the sweetness of her milk. There is a separate ceremony that goes with becoming a milk-cow, (discussed later). Milk-cows spend their.