My dad had done well in his end of school exams and got a good job in the civil service in Dublin. This allowed him to leave the small farm he grew up on and move to the city for a better life. His brother Joe stayed on the land but he hated having to work in the same place all the time. So his uncles and my dad chipped in(筹集资金) and helped him to buy a cattle truck. It was a big truck, capable of holding up to a dozen big cattle. You could also slide boards into the middle of the container, making it a two tier carrier for sheep.