I took my coat off and let him see me in my white basque and white see through knickers, he just said ' fukin hell he'll have a heart attack '.Anyway...i waited and a couple of minutes later he came and got me and led me in to the sitting room where a group of drunk lads were stood about and one was at on a chair with a blindfold on, i was led over and motioned for me to sit on his knee and one of the guys took his blindfold off. They all cheered and i told the guy i was sat on that i was his. I felt her silk hand grasp ahold of mine. ‘I’m Marlene,’ she said, slightly leaning into me as she reached her left hand across her body. ‘I live two streets behind you but a block down.’ After a bit of small talk about how long we have both lived in town, children, neighbors, and other trivial things. I found out that she was 49, seperated from an alcoholic husband and was currently living with her mother. A breeze blew her hair across my arm. She grabbed the strands of hair and apoligized as. “Well, get to work,” the man said pointing to the stables.Mike worked through the day shoveling manure into a wheel barrow and then from the wheel barrow into barrels. Twice a day a wagon came to collect the barrels of manure leaving behind empty barrels. After a couple of questions, Mike had learned that the tannery used the manure as part of the tanning process. They made something called dung water and soaked the skins in it to make them supple. Mike didn’t know much about tanning, but he. After a time, I offhandedly asked the girls how they had decided who would be joining me this morning. Jess, perennial chatterbox, chimed in first, "We've trying out a new a system, Daddy! All us girls put our names in a hat one time, and every morning we'll draw a few to see who gets to wake you up that day. When the names run out we put everyone's name back in and we start again! We haven't run out yet though, and it's going to take a long time to go through everybody. We're still taking it.