After telling my 'former' master I resign I went home, told the family of the change of boss and location, I packed my belongings and left with my new boss.
After a long ride we arrived at a huge house with a long drive, as I was getting out I heard a lady yelling around the back of the house. The master must have been curious as well as he ushered me around the house. The lady was yelling about that patchy horse and it's broken coloured and will never be in her stable.
The thing that shocked me was when she said to send in to the slaughter house. I turned to the master about to tell him this was to be how things were ran id leave but when he looked at me he smiled.
"you said you needed a horse, so why don't you pay her three pennies, that's all the slaughter house pays" he whispered to me.
I walked up to the lady and we made a deal I gave her three pennies and the master showed me a small paddock next to my quarters where I could keep her.
The quarters I was given were huge, five bedrooms and two bathrooms, it was as big as my parents house.
i worked there for two years barley seeing my family saving up my money, the patchy mare I bought from the mistress was put out with the masters stallion and now had a little filie, she was black as coal like her father.
I rode into town on one of the masters horses and went home to see my family, I arrived and tied the horse up. I knocked on the door and my father opened it.
He quickly ushered me in
"where's the money?" he demanded.
Taken back by his outburst I took a look around, the house was in better shape but was very quiet. Too quiet.
"wheres the kids?" I asked
Father looked like he was thinking hard then said they had gone down the shops with my mother.
That idea went down the drain when my mother walked in the door alone.
"where are the kids" I asked.
"at the work house, we couldn't afford them all" my mother said.
I raced out the door and jumped on the horse, we cantered down the road to the work house and raced in.
