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Youngsters Day Out


morton

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Lads who have a small shoot were asked by the landowner to check a valley for signs of fox,he was due to put his ewes,ready to lamb,in the surrounding area and had seen a fox the week before.4 lads,1 gun,2 lurchers,spaniel,adult red Fell bitch and a young Beddy/Fell,bred from the red un.Gun was set down the valley whilst the spaniel and the youngster searched the cover,spaniel worked tirelessly with the youngster doing its share,a few bunny,s evicted from their Gorse lair and a Roe that made its way down the valley to be ignored by the gun,a good holding spot with dead bunny,s stashed about looked good for a cubbing den,red bitch loosed and nothing at home,the spaniel and youngster worked steadily up and down,a woodcock whizzed over my head and the youngster marked a tree,moving on the spaniel marked a drain,the youngster was coupled before he could enter and the red un was entered,bunny,s again.we arrived at the waiting gun and checked a known holding spot at the side of a wood,occupied by an undesirable fella,backtracking the squirrel was found and shot and we made our way to the lads flight pond,the gorse around it was worked by the spaniel and youngster,a water hen loitered to long and the spaniel finished it,youngster settled well into the rhythm,spaniel was its usual busy self,lurchers never broke sweat and the gun accounted for a squirrel,a day out and about after the seasons ended,a necessary evil at times but another days education for the sapling.

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