The actual condition of the range country to-day is far better than is generally believed to be the case, even among rangemen themselves.

The road was wet and my car did a 360, freaking me out.

Some very poor households actually came out of the recent drought better than when the event began, while some of the wealthier households benefited both from a favourable livestock market and increased opportunities to share herd out animals in the post-drought period.

From the early fourteenth century onwards, the hospital employed a cook and his assistant, along with an assortment of hired hands, including a laundress, a palfreyman, a boatwright, a smith and a swineherd.