Our earliest paid cullers worked for the Acclimatisation societies, where these shooters were encouraged to spare trophy-potential deer, and destroy inferior and ill-conditioned animals, in an effort to protect the future status of the herds and the revenue that stag seasons generated for cash-strapped societies.
So, this was ‘The Burn’. At three-thirty in the afternoon, I'd began trudging up this steep grassy hill, wiping sunscreen-laden sweat from my eyes and wondering if the sleep-in had been worth it.
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