Here and there a lone man passed from cot to shed, carrying buckets or hay, but the road was deserted for the most part.

Three weeks of relentless walk, carrying hay for the journey and returning with salt for the market in Timbuktu.

Two men, tiny as dots, move from a farm on a snow-slope, carrying hay to the beast.

A large open bed truck of the type used to carry hay was barely moving down the middle of the road halfway across both lanes.

"Something like one of them new-fangled machines what carry hay up on to the top of stacks," said Churchwarden No. 1 at length.

My dad said, "Now you can carry hay to the horses," and I was like, "I don't think so."

As he worked at the chores, dug the trenches for Brianna's water pipes, carried hay, chopped wood, he would try to think: "Not much longer."

By the end of the decade, the Institute was still selling stumping powder, but also carried hay, clover, barbed wire and fertilizer.

I wasn't having the best fun ever carrying hay and mending rails in Greenland, but it was a life, I could put up with it.

So, two days before the ship's due to sail, Thorstein comes up to me in the barn, where I'm carrying hay down to the sheds.