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  Early to Rise: A Suffolk Morning (Paperback) By (author) Hugh Barrett, Foreword by Ronald Blythe

  

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  Short Description for Early to RiseThis is a first-hand account of life as a 16-year-old farm pupil in the early 1930s. The author looks back at his experiences as he learned to plough, build a stack, hoe beet and grind the pig food. His accounts of rats and plagues of fleas are factually accurate and told with humour.
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  • Publisher: Old Pond Publishing Ltd
  • Published: 15 June 2001
  • Format: Paperback 176 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Autobiography: General | Agriculture & Farming
  • ISBN 13: 9781903366165 ISBN 10: 190336616X

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• This is a first-hand account of life as a 16-year-old farm pupil in the early 1930s. In Suffolk, as elsewhere, the tractor had not yet displaced the horse, farms were full of labourers and the working day was long and hard. Hugh Barrett "lived in", received five shillings a week and learned to plough, build a stack, hoe beet and grind the pig food. His accounts of rabbits, rats and plagues of fleas are, like all the book, factually accurate and told with humour. The author sets out to convey "neither the bad old days nor the good old days" - just the year when he earned his first wage, the larks sang and the heavy tasks began to sort out the men from the boys.