He stays in the same cottage on the same farm all his life, his descendants remain and work for the same tenant family.

He can trace his descent in the locality for a hundred years.

From time immemorial both Hodge and his immediate employers have looked towards Fleeceborough as their capital.

Hodge goes in to the market in charge of his master's sheep, his wife trudges in for household necessaries.

All the hamlet goes in to the annual fairs.