The existence of a shepherd andcowmanin table 2 indicates that activities on the farm were more pastoral than those in the southeast.
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Probably one of the most frequent examples of the tied cottage is that of the cottage of acowmanon a farm.
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How do we put a man into a category when he may be acowmanin the morning and a tractor driver during the day?
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Four days later, the standbycowman, too, fell ill.
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He could not find suitable accommodation for hiscowman, so he built a house at the cost of £4,000.
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The shepherd and thecowman, as a general rule, live on the farms and not in the villages.
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One of these was a very goodcowmanwho had a nice little wife and several nice little children.
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I shall be sorry to get rid of a goodcowmanwho has been with me 17 years.
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Two years later, he still has to wear a woolly hat to keep his head warm, and so does hiscowman.
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She went out to the farm, took blood samples and found that the producer and hiscowmanhad the same problem.
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In those cottages to-day are the foreman of the farm and thecowman.
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You must have anothercowmanto take that cottage.
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On the ground that he refused to carry out the instruction of his employer to do the duty of a labourer instead of that of acowman.
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If we are justified in paying the £36 subsidy for thecowman, why are we not entitled to think that the same figure is justified for rehousing the milkman?
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What suggestions can be made to meet the problem of the cottage now occupied by a lorry driver or factory worker and really needed for thecowman?
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