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In all my seventy three years, it was only during my first nine years that I had anything to do with our farms three shire horse. The most regular job was to lead them to the blacksmith's shop with my brothers on the way to school. They would stay...
I don't know how mother came to have such a strong grip, but if she caught a hold of you for some reason, there was no hope of getting away, perhaps it was the hand milking in her younger days that gave her that grip, I remember some old cows were...
I had the skin on the end of my index finger ripped off, at the time I thought it would have made a good tap washer, (they used to be leather) Hands , they take a lot of rough treatment around the farm, my own father lost two fingers as a lad in the blade...
Soon after this picture was taken he bought his first tractor. At an unfortunate moment one horse did little more than stamp his foot, the blade did a quick couple of zithers and father lost two of his fingers. These are tales father used to tell us round...