From getting up and all kinds of weather and times at night to check on first-calf heifers, to branding in the springtime, putting up hay for feed in the winter.
As the cattle were brought in, the young animals were branded -- marked to show who owned them. Then they were released with their mothers to spend another year in the open country.
And back home those who refused to fight were branded cowards and given white feathers for a soldier in the trenches to share their fears would be tantamount to signing his own rejection letter to English society.
Imagined as a thing, we were made to become that thing, and so we have been bred like horses, fed like turtles to alligators, branded like cattle, milked like sows, made into oxen to plow.
It didn't matter that he was hunted, feared, branded. Only her arms could tame the fury of his fists. Only his kisses could calm the terror in her heart.