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`` But I suppose they have to be . People must have milk and they must have veal . '' At nine , though his fingers would become cramped and his wrists would pain him , Bill had three cows to account for twice a day . At five in the morning , he would be shaken by Martin and told to hurry up . It would be dark when he stepped out into the chill air , and he would draw back with a shiver . Somewhere on these six hundred acres was the herd and it was his chore to find it and bring it in . He would go struggling through the pasture , unable to see twenty-five feet ahead of him , the cold dew or snow soaking through his overalls , his shoes becoming wet .