rounding-in

Updated: June 9, 2025

At our farm he helped of his own free will in saving a drowning beast, or in removing a fat pig that had been killed, sometimes even in rounding-in cattle that had strayed out of bounds, and so on, giving help in a thousand ways. For all that he wanted no reward. Rewards he refused altogether simply because it was good-feeling which made him do these things.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct