About the book: 1980 / My story begins the day after the fair in Down. They traded briskly there; Many prasols from the northern and central counties of England came to the fair, and English money flowed like a river to the delight of the cattle breeders of the Highlands. Many herds had to go to England under the protection of their owners or hired herd drivers, who were entrusted with the boring, troublesome and responsible task of driving the bulls many hundreds of miles from the market where they were bought to the pastures or stockyards where they were supposed to be fattened for slaughter.