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Prairie Girl - 3 (Fm, cd, v)
by Chrissie LaFemme

***

Queenie knew her next task was to put as much distance 
between Blondie and the other two boys as she could. Keeping 
him tied up and locked in the spare bedroom at night while 
they slept in the out-house heightened his sense of isolation 
from things masculine.

She forbade him to talk to the boys at meal times threatening 
dire consequences if he did.

One morning Boss did not come down for breakfast and it was 
Queenie who let Homer and Dutchie out of their sleeping 
quarters.

Blondie served them their breakfast while Queenie busied 
herself in the kitchen.

Dutchie touched Blondie on the arm and pointed questioningly 
to Boss's empty place. Blondie, nervously looked back to the 
kitchen and seeing that Queenie had her back to them, 
signalled to them that Boss had been drinking.

'Last night or this morning?' Dutchie tried to signal back.

Blondie stared at him blankly.

Dutchie repeated the signal.

But still Blondie did not understand what he was saying.

Exasperated, Dutchie whispered:

"Was he drinking last night or this morning?"

Blondie looked around again and saw that Queenie still had 
her back to them.

"Last night," he whispered. "He nearly drank a whole bot --"

"YOU WENCH! I CAUGHT YOU, YOU WENCH," Queenie shouted. "I 
CAUGHT YOU TALKING!"

She strode into the room, grabbed Blondie by the arm and 
dragged him, skirts flying, back into the kitchen. She 
slammed the door shut behind her and slapped repeatedly him 
across the face.

"I told you <slap> you're not <slap> allowed to talk <slap> 
except when I tell you," she hollered.

The boy tried to ward off the blows but this incensed Queenie 
even further.

"I know how to sort you out!" she snarled through clenched 
teeth. She took a length of cotton and gagged the boy as 
tightly as she could.

She pushed the muzzled boy back into where the two boys were 
sitting and told him to finish serving the meal.

"What's ... what's ... going on here?" Boss said groggily he 
as came into the room.

"Blondie here was disobedient and I had to punish the wench," 
Queenie said calmly.

The muzzled boy looked at Boss with beseeching eyes.

Boss made his way unsteadily to his place, clutching on to 
the table to balance himself and sat down. He rubbed his 
blood-shot eyes with the back of his hand; he avoided looking 
at Blondie.

"What's going on here?" he repeated in a hollow voice.

Queenie leant against the kitchen door with her arms folded; 
a scornful look appeared on her face.

"I forbade Blondie to talk to the boys at the table and the 
wench disobeyed me. Now Blondie's paying the penalty," she 
said smoothly.

"But --" Boss started to reply.

"I'm in charge of Blondie, remember, and I'll decide what the 
wench can or cannot do!" she snapped. 

"But --" Boss tried again.

"But nothing! I won't have you undermining my authority with 
the wench. Hear me, Boss? Just don't _get_ in my _way_ again 
-- or else!" Queenie snarled through clenched teeth, picking 
up a carving knife and ramming it into the wooden carving 
block.

Boss, suddenly remembering the story of Wally Segard, 
blanched and his hands moved to cover his crotch.

"But he needsstht to talhk!" he stuttered incoherently.

Homer and Dutchie looked on with bewilderment: was Boss going 
to let her talk back to him in front of them like this? 
Surely he was not going to allow her to punish Blondie like 
this? 'Come on, man,' they silently urged, 'get up and show 
her whose boss around here!'

The boy too continued to silently implore Boss with his eyes.

It was Queenie who broke the eerie silence.

"Blondie, come here to me! NOW!" she ordered.

The boy gave a last, despairing glance at Boss who averted 
his eyes. He lifted his skirts and slowly walked over to 
where Queenie was standing.

"Turn around: your gag is loose," she commanded in an 
imperious voice.

The boy slowly turned around to face the men at the table 
while Queenie made a great show of taking off his gag and 
retying it with as much force as she could muster.

She spun him around to face her.

"There, that'll still you. You listen to me, Blondie: you 
answer to me and to me alone. Is that clear?"

The boy nodded his head.

In a louder voice Queenie continued:

"Let everybody be a witness to this: in this house you have 
the status of a maid and since I'm the mistress of this 
household I -- and I alone -- will punish you as I see fit," 
she pronounced. "Now, get Boss his breakfast."

>From that day on Homer and Dutchie knew that Blondie's fate 
was sealed; it was clear that Boss would never even try to 
intervene on Blondie's behalf again in the future. It was 
their first sign that Boss's absolute authority was on the 
wane.


++++++++++++++++


Queenie made her hapless assistant change clothes twice a 
day. He started the day wearing stiffened petticoats and a 
dress. Then when Boss and the boys had gone out to the herd 
she put him into hoops. She liked the idea of the widest 
possible crinoline on Blondie -- the wider the spread of his 
dress the more difficult it was for him to maneouvre (and to 
escape).

When he thought he was out of her eye sight he would try to 
undo the buttons of his dress to take the hoops off. She 
would smile to herself when realizing the futility of what he 
was doing Blondie would give up in despair.

Queenie deliberately created a claustrophobic atmosphere of 
enforced feminine helplessness into which she sucked Blondie 
and from which there was no escape:

* she never let him out of her sight;

* she kept him permanently dressed in constrictive feminine 
clothing;

* she kept him tethered to his bed at night;

* she isolated him from the three other males in the 
household; and,

* by her actions and commands, constantly reminded him of his 
feminized state.

An important key to emphasizing his newly imposed femininity 
she discovered was his hair. Queenie kept his blonde hair 
long and only trimmed it to keep the locks even. At night she 
would braid his hair before pinning on a lace sleeping cap. 
In the morning she would fix his hair into plaits or some 
other equally feminine arrangement. During the day he was not 
allowed to wear his hair bare -- it had to be covered by a 
cap, snood, veil, or bonnet. At random intervals -- during 
the day or night -- she would strap him to a chair and would 
spend ten, fifteen or twenty minutes combing and brushing his 
hair.

Queenie let a fringe grow at the front and was pleased when 
every five minutes Blondie would have to sweep the hair out 
of his eyes and tuck it behind his ear. Though he was not yet 
conscious of it Queenie quite liked this feminine mannerism 
she had developed in Blondie.


++++++++++++++++


There was no let up in the stifling, suffocating feminine 
'prison' regime for Blondie. On Sunday afternoon when Boss 
was asleep inside the house and the boys were messing down by 
the river, upstairs in her bedroom Queenie was dressing 
Blondie for their Sunday stroll.

She fastened her widest crinoline around the boy's waist and 
followed it with a succession of petticoats. Then after a few 
minutes deliberation she fitted him in one of her heaviest 
and most elaborate dresses.

"Purple is such a lovely color on you, Blondie," she told 
him, tying the sash at back. Then, she turned him to face the 
mirror and added with a leer: "You look so pretty -- and I 
haven't finished with you yet!"

She grinned as the boy's face burned red with embarrassment 
and humiliation.

She lightly brushed the ringlets she had set in his hair that 
morning and dabbed eau-de-cologne on his neck.

Queenie muzzled the boy securing the gag with a tight knot at 
the back of his head.

Then she took a wide brimmed bonnet from the bed and 
carefully placed it on his head. Releasing a pin she allowed 
a heavy, cream-colored lace veil draped on the brim of the 
hat to fall down and to touch his shoulders. The veil was one 
of her favorite touches: it allowed the boy to see where he 
was going but nobody looking at him could see through it that 
he was gagged.

When she was satisfied that he was ready she got dressed 
herself. Right from the very beginning she had decided to 
dress in front of him. Though initially she found it 
disconcerting to have a male watch her dress she persevered. 
She reasoned that it would further undermine his sense of 
male identity because he'd realize that no woman would ever 
willingly permit a male (unless he was her husband) see her 
undress in the privacy of her own bedroom. Her policy of 
letting him see her in her underwear would sent him the very 
clear but subtle message that she did not consider him a 
male.

When she was finished dressing Queenie untied the cords 
securing Blondie's wrists to the bed-post. She forced his 
hands into a pair of white gloves and with a length of white 
ribbon tied his wrists together in front. She unlocked the 
bedroom door and propelled the feminized boy down to the 
kitchen.

"Hold this in your left hand, girlie," she ordered, giving 
him a lace parasol.

Knowing what was coming, the boy cautiously reached out for 
the parasol. Taking another length of white ribbon Queenie 
strapped the parasol to his hand so he could not let go of it 
even if he wanted to.

"Hold your skirts up with your free hand," Queenie said, 
stressing the word 'free' with sarcastic irony. The boy 
gathered his voluminous skirts with difficulty with his right 
hand while still keeping his parasol upright in his other 
hand. Queen watched with detached amusement.

"I think you'll be too preoccupied to run away from me this 
afternoon, girlie!" she joked. "Better still, if Homer and 
Dutchie see you, they'll think how daintily you're holding 
your pretty parasol!"

Linking arms with her hapless companion she led Blondie along 
her favorite walk, to the small hill overlooking the ranch 
and the river. Years ago she had gotten Boss to make her a 
wooden seat under the shade of a tree, and this was usually 
where she brought Blondie. Boss had labeled it Lady's View 
and the name had stuck.

"Here we are!" she announced.

The boy looked at her hesitantly.

"Relax, Blondie! You can sit down on the bench today!" 
Queenie laughed (she liked to keep him guessing what she 
intended to do with him: sometimes she would keep him 
standing in the blazing sun until he would scream through his 
gag from pain and exhaustion, at other times she would sit 
him on a rug but bind his ankles and wrists together).

She settled the boy on the bench, spreading his skirts about 
him. She released the parasol, untied his wrists and removed 
his gloves. Next, she carefully lifted the veil up off his 
face and pinned it back up on the brim of the bonnet. Then, 
much to his relief, she took off his gag. Finally, she gave 
him his embroidery frame, needle and threads.

"What color are you going to make the dress?" she asked 
chattily.

The boy glanced at her and then looked at the outline of a 
woman printed on the fabric stretched taut over the frame in 
his hands. He looked back up at her with a defiant look in 
his eyes.

Queenie picked up a cord and waved it warningly in his face.

"Purple!" the boy replied hastily.

Queenie laughed.

"Off you go, girlie!" she said, sitting down beside him.

For the next hour she watched as he embroidered, his slim 
fingers working the needle and colored threads through the 
fabric as she had taught him. She stopped him occasionally to 
correct a mistake or to teach him a new technique. He had 
come to like embroidery -- Queenie had rightly figured that 
he'd find it preferable to spending the afternoon bound and 
gagged.

"Are you hungry, girlie? Would you like an apple?" she 
inquired later.

The boy looked at her in surprise and nodded his head. Before 
he could put down his embroidery frame, Queenie abruptly 
dropped the apple in his lap which he trapped in his skirts 
and hungrily ate.

A few minutes later, Queenie was about to pick up her own 
frame when she heard shouts. Then she saw Homer and Dutchie 
brawling playfully in the river below. Even from where she 
was sitting it was plain that they were naked. Blondie looked 
up from his embroidery.

Queenie rummaged through her basket and pulled out a cotton 
scarf.

"You're not going to gag me, are you? Why?" the boy gasped in 
dismay, the blood draining from his face.

"No, girlie, I'm not going to gag you," Queenie replied, 
getting up and standing in front of him. "I'm going to 
blindfold you."

"Why? Why are you blindfolding me? What have I done? Please, 
tell me why?" the boy pleaded.

"Because impressionable young girls should not be exposed to 
the sight of male nudity until they're married!" she replied 
sternly, tying the blindfold tightly at the back of his head. 
Once more she released the heavy lace veil, allowing it to 
fall down over the brim of the bonnet and obscure his face.

She sat down and waited for his response. 'I know what you'd 
like to say,' she said to herself, 'you'd like to say: "But 
I'm not a girl -- I'm a boy just like they are!" But you know 
that's not the answer I want to hear!'

There was a silence before the boy replied.

"I won't be able to embroider now," he said in a small, 
subdued voice.

Queenie smiled broadly.

"That's men for you, girlie! They always spoil things on us," 
she said.

Blondie said nothing.

"You can finish this later, girlie," she said, taking the 
embroidery frame from him, "because, right now, I want your 
undivided attention. It's high time we talk again, woman-to-
woman, on what it means to be female."

She moved closer to the boy until their skirts pressed 
against each other and she could feel the outline of his 
crinoline. She knew Blondie hated these "womanly chats" which 
always lauded his feminine characteristics and denigrated his 
masculine traits.

"What would you say, girlie, is the main difference between 
men and us?" she asked.

Her blind-folded and cross-dressed companion shrugged his 
shoulders in reply.

"Our femininity. We're endowed with the qualities of 
gentleness, softness, sensitivity and kindness. The qualities 
that tell us apart from men," she replied. "And the qualities 
other women recognize in us."

Then pulling a letter from her pocket, she said: "Let me read 
what someone who knows you well has said about you: 'when I 
first met him he was the most gentle child I have ever 
encountered ... so small and perfectly formed ... and with 
such soft skin [the envy of every woman who comes in contact 
with him] ... he preferred female company ... hated the rough 
behavior of boys'. You know who wrote this letter, girlie?"

The boy shook his head.

"Mrs. Mellon," Queenie replied.

The boy gasped in astonishment.

"Yes, girlie, you're surprized! I never told you this before 
but Mrs. Mellon picked you! Mrs. Mellon, the matron of your 
orphanage! She originally offered us two boys but, after a 
private conversation with me, she later decided to add you as 
a bonus! That was why Boss and I were so surprized when the 
driver from the orphanage brought the three of you -- we had 
only expected two!" Queenie said.

Blondie continued to gape at her.

Queenie continued: "Let me explain, girlie: I had wanted to 
adopt a boy and a girl from the orphanage but Boss wouldn't 
let me -- he wanted boys only. I was in tears when we visited 
the orphanage and Mrs. Mellon took me aside to find out why. 
When I explained this to her she said she couldn't let me 
adopt a girl without Boss's permission. She said she 
sympathized with me and assured me she would do her very best 
to help me achieve my goal! She had a knowing smile on her 
face when she said it!"

She took Blondie's hands in her own.

"And do you know why, girlie?" she asked softly.

The boy shook his head for a second time.

"Because she immediately thought of you, girlie. She wrote in 
her letter that because of your feminine characteristics ... 
of gentleness, softness, sensitivity ... you could be the 
nearest substitute to the girl I had been hoping for!" 
Queenie replied. "She added that all you lacked was a dress 
but this has not always been the case in the past! I always 
thought this was a strange remark but I never made anything 
of it. But lately, girlie, I've observed some things in you 
that has made me think of her remark. Of course, most of the 
time you pretend to hate your present predicament but deep 
down I'm not so sure ..."

"I do hate it!" the boy interrupted.

"Then explain this: a few minutes ago, I dropped an apple in 
your lap while you were holding your embroidery frame in your 
hands. Remember how you caught it? By spreading your knees 
wide and catching it with your skirt: that's the way a girl 
catches something dropped in her lap. A boy does the 
opposite: he catches by bringing his legs together," Queenie 
said.

"So?" the boy muttered scornfully.

"So where did you learn to catch that way?" Queenie asked. 
"You were tutored at a very early age, I imagine ..."

"Hogwash!" Blondie replied, reddening. "What does it prove?" 
he added in a husky voice.

"Prior tutoring, girlie, prior tutoring!" Queenie asserted. 
"And, I suspect, tutoring which began at a very early age 
..."

The boy looked down at the ground and didn't reply.

"There are other little clues, girlie," Queenie continued 
softly. "You thread your embroidery needle the way a woman 
does! A few days ago as an experiment, I asked Dutchie and 
Homer to thread a needle. They both did it the opposite why 
you and I do it ...!"

Blondie said nothing and continued to look at the ground.

"Is there anything you'd like to tell me, girlie?" Queenie 
prompted gently. "How is it that you do all of these things 
the way a girl does ... ?"

The boy did not reply.

"Don't want to talk, girlie?" Queenie responded briskly. 
"Don't you worry, girlie, I'll make a few enquiries ..."