One of the hardest men I have ever seen [shear equally fast with both hands] and broke in his own farm in back country Taranaki would look after his small sons in the shearing shed and give them Tux dog biscuits to chew on as they crawled around in the shed . The boys are are grown men well over 6ft tall amd hard as nails as their father. In winter the boys would walk around bare feet because they didn't like shoes. Like in ice over the puddles .
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