It was only the very poor who were exempt.

While my father carried on the manufacture of leather and worked at the trade himself, he owned and tilled considerable land.

I detested the trade, preferring almost any other labor; but I was fond of agriculture, and of all employment in which horses were used.

We had, among other lands, fifty acres of forest within a mile of the village.

In the fall of the year choppers were employed to cut enough wood to last a twelve-month.