His neighbours perchance may be making fortunes, though they tell quite a different tale, but he feels that he is not growing rich.

The work is hard, or rather it is continuous.

No one has to attend to his duties so regularly all the year round as the man who looks after cows.

They cannot be left a single day from the 1st of January to the 31st of December.

Nor is the social state of things altogether pleasant to reflect on.