According to memories of the author’s father, the saddlers were taking journeys during winter seasons - so called stery. During these journeys, they were seeing farmers in villages offering them to repair their agricultural tools directly on site. The journey usually took a week. The participants thereof often liked to remember them retroactively. The text brings a memory of one of the apprentices regarding livelihood conditions prevailing in the course of a journey to the German borderland. and Autorka je dopisovatelkou ČNS