When the hay harvest was over, according to his share of the arable land, each villager in Domremy had the right to turn so many head of cattle into the meadows of the village.

Each family took its turn at watching the flocks and herds in the meadows.
Jacques d'Arc, who had a little grazing land of his own, turned out his oxen and his horses with the others.

When his turn came to watch them, he delegated the task to his daughter Jeanne, who went off into the meadow, distaff in hand.[180] [Footnote 180: _Trial_, vol.i, pp.

51, 66; vol.ii, p.404.

S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, p.