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103%u201cIt varies. On average, my five cows deliver just over 100 pints a day,%u201d she replied.%u201cWhy boil it. Doesn%u2019t it destroy some of the goodness?%u201d%u201cIt is to ensure the spread of TB is prevented. It%u2019s a bacteria that causes illness and death in us human beings.%u201dHe nodded. %u201c I see. We don%u2019t have that. Although we have similar issues, but our medical knowledge is more advanced. Yours will be in the next fifty years or more.%u201d%u201cYou never told me about our era%u2019s future. Do you know what happens. Will we win the war?%u201d%u201cI have not been any further forward than now, so I don%u2019t know,%u201d he replied.Truth, she instinctively felt. %u201cOkay. When that bucket and that one,%u201d she pointed, %u201care full. Please bring them into that out-building. That is where I use a large gas burner to heat the milk in a steel pan and sterilise it. We need to dig up a few potatoes afterwards. A row will likely be ready.%u201dThe day of work ended late. It was seven in the evening before he sat down at the table and Kelly served out potatoes in a bowl of vegetable soup. %u201cYou said it would be a day of, quote, light-work. What does a hard day feel like?%u201dShe chuckled as she sat and began eating. %u201cIt doesn%u2019t feel any harder because by then you will be much fitter. I assume you had a less physical life?%u201d%u201cScience doesn%u2019t require much running around, unless something goes horribly wrong, and you have to run for it?%u201d He told her.%u201cAnd does that happen often?%u201dThe Time Traveller