set task

Every available hand was out at work upon some set task, part of the daily routine of the cattle world.

He dipped his face and hands in cooling water and, at the table, with squared elbows, addressed himself to a set task.

He hated the set task of fifty lines, and hated the system that imposed a fine of twenty lines for a failure to fulfil the first.

However, the result of this outrageous set-task was curious and worthy of this its first and only record.

The very first thing he did when he came home again was to make her repeat the set task from beginning to end.