But, half-holiday or not, cows have to be fed and Milked, sheep must be looked after, and the stable attended to, so that the regular men do not get off much sooner.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The milk has, perhaps, to travel three or four miles to the railway station; near great towns, where some of the farmers deliver milk themselves from house to house, the cows are Milked soon after noonday.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
That was the character of the cow he had pointed out; even when she had not seen the calf of which she had been deprived she made so great an outcry and was thrown into such a rage and fever, refusing to be Milked that, finally, to save her, it was thought necessary to give her back the calf.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson