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The gamekeeper drawing on his fag at the edge of the wood

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​ If you’re out in the fields, ambling as you do, you might come across this chap, David, the gamekeeper, a fag in his mouth and a gun of some description in his paws for shooting at poachers.  I don’t know no poachers, but they do exist. I have a book about them and I seen a program as well. But the gamekeeper knows where they’re at like. He waits at a certain fence, or at this opening to the woods or that and he keeps a look out, he listens, and he stands there for hours if he must do. There’s some lads driving down from Boro. They’re after the badgers or something. I don’t know. Maybe the rabbits.But the gamekeepers having none of it. He just stands there, drawing on his fag.  Wouldn’t the poachers smell it How’m I supposed to know, but he does it, and if it’s a moonlit night, still and quiet, because it must be best for playing poachers and game keeping I expect, then he’s having the time of his life, drawing on his fag and not watching the news or flicking his phone.