I went there the other day, dressed up in my white coat, my hair protector and white gumboots.
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Luckily they lent us gumboots to walk about with, but one was well over one's ankles.
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My information is that all those working in those conditions were provided with gumboots.
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I do not think they are peopled by hardfaced bureaucrats, but they are people who put on gumboots and get about the countryside.
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The question that arose was: who should organise the workers in thegumbootfactory?
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But one member of the party endured to the end—he had remembered to bring a pair of gumboots.
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Some men on this face were provided with gumboots, but at no point along the face was there any excessive quantity of water.
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The rubber shortage has made it necessary for us to conserve the limited supplies of gumboots available for those workers for whom their use is virtually essential.
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I understand that the contractors are already supplying oilskins and gumboots to men required to work in wet conditions, and that ample shelter accommodation has been provided.
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Will he ensure that there is always money to maintain the paths that horses also use and remind walkers that if it is muddy, they need to wear gumboots?
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Families need to put on gumboots to wade out to their garages, and housewives are unable to hang out washing because they cannot put their baskets on the ground.
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The aim of the festival is to break the world record for the longestgumbootthrow.
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Before running the race, he told the press that he had previously run for two to three days straight rounding up sheep in gumboots.
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It is a celebration of all things to do with gumboots, and includes the famousgumbootthrowing contest.
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Thegumbootcan live for over 40 years.
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