Farmers still collect at cross-roads, as they did in former times, to buy or sell cattle, here there came a man known as a "cattle blocker", who helped to make bargains among the buyers and sellers. Toll was paid at markets, and collected after the market began, by a man who went round to each man on the market. When goods were given without ready payment, they were known as goods given on "tick" or on "Strap".
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