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In fact, except for Gisrib, the three shepherds, the two miner families, and the few cotters who farmed the apron of land surrounding the western side of the town walls, hardly any of Hiddenhaven's populace had ever travelled anywhere else.

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Yes; Einar, one of the cotters, had had rather an eye on the farm.

Look Back on Happiness 2003

The news has leaked out that the master of the homestead here owes a huge debt, and that because he needs cash he has sold new, valuable plots of land to his cotters.

Look Back on Happiness 2003

Far away on another peak walks one of the cows of the cotters, a strange little cow with red and white flanks.

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Meanwhile, the cotters who are cultivating the soil will probably go on harvesting half the crop of the outlying fields for the rest of time.

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The fact was that every time these cotters wanted to buy a fresh piece of land from Paul, her husband had to give his consent.

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It was a long way between neighbors here; one or two cotters had cleared an area in the forest, which they had then bought; apart from that, all the land in sight belonged to the farm.

Look Back on Happiness 2003

The cotters had got their hay indoors during the patient spell.

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It was no small area these cotters had broken up; the homesteads were tiny but the fences surrounding the land included a good section of forest.

Look Back on Happiness 2003

But at least Paul began to tackle things in the right spirit again; he only regretted that he had set aside for the cotters those outlying fields from which they were used to getting half the hay; this year he would have liked to keep it himself.

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