It was our task to herd Herefordshire cattle from one corner of a huge, featureless field to another.
A loose flock of egrets has gathered by the cattle in the corner of the pasture to the west of the cemetery.
Before reading Allen's book, for instance, I hadn't realised that the French superlative "c'est vache" - meaning "excellent" - dates from the early 19th-century Parisian medical practice of corralling cattle on street corners the better to extract fresh vaccine direct from the animals' lymph glands.
"Tony Blair couldn't give a toss about the countryside," Mr. Pearman said, interviewed in the kitchen of the house he built himself on a 200-acre cattle, corn and pheasant farm in this bucolic corner of Oxfordshire.
The descent needs some caution: there's one tight corner, a cattle grid and a crossroads.
Bol's stature and his endearing personal tale -- he grew up minding cattle in a remote corner of Sudan before transforming himself into a backup center in the world's most prestigious basketball league -- brought him much attention during his American career.
He's very capable in construction and has a good design sense". Strahan credits computer advancement for helping run his office in Cimarron, a modest corner of cattle country near the 138,000-acre Philmont Boy Scout Ranch.
Huge tracts of the Chaco are being razed in a scramble into one of South America's most remote corners by cattle ranchers from Brazil, Paraguay's giant neighbor, and German-speaking Mennonites, descendants of colonists who arrived here nearly a century ago and work as farmers and ranchers.
They had flocked over the past decade to this small town of 1,400 people among the cattle farms in the southwest corner of the state because of the beautifully preserved 1880's buildings that lined its two-block main street.
In newspaper headlines and on websites, the Tompkins have been accused of dark motives and sinister schemes, some of them ridiculous, some downright entertaining - they are here to replace local cattle with American buffalo, to corner the world granite market, to establish a new Zionist state, to steal Chile's water and sell it to Africa.
