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At the end of summer, in February, the firewood-gatherers would set to work gathering the cardoon-stalks, their hands and arms protected with sheep-skin gloves, and at that season our carters would bring in huge loads, to be stacked up in piles high as a house for the year's use.
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By and by pheasants as well as rabbits were strictly preserved, and the firewood-gatherers were excluded altogether.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881
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