The Ostler and the Lady Chapter One First Meeting
Having spent the morning tending to the horses and cleaning out each of the ten occupied stalls, Jack Wetherly, apprentice ostler on the Brandling estate, closed the large stable doors. The rough mix of straw, hay and horse shit was loaded onto the waggon. Later, he would hitch up one of the two dray horses and drive to a local farm where the load would rot further until the Autumn ploughing.The glare of sunlight had Jack blinking after the gloom of the interior. Heat from that same noonday...
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