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I was 12 and working on my Aunties farm, in Hutton Ambo, Yorkshire. I used to milk five cows every morning, and agian in the evening! We used to separate the cream from the milk, and we turned the cream into butter and we used to feed the milk to the pigs!!! The butter was hand churned and it took about an hour to turn the cream into butter, my arm used to ache, so I regularily swooped arms!

One day I was working in a field quite far away the farm and when I came back that day I discovered that the farm had been taken over by the army. There must have been about two hundred soliders, all on horse back! Every one of them in Khaki uniform, I was very suprized to see them filling the fold yard.

I think they were part of the Green Howard's, although I'm not completley sure.

They stayed for about a week, sleeping in the barns, where you might expect a comfortable bed of straw, but no, only a wooden floor to rest on!

They brought their own food, and suprizly didn't drink the milk we saved for the pigs, I wonder why not?!!

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