{"id":45620,"date":"2020-04-23T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=45620"},"modified":"2020-04-23T10:21:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T10:21:40","slug":"the-hunters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-hunters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have experienced life first hand<br \/>\nBeing the son of a Poacher  man<br \/>\nA countryman in the nineteen twenties<br \/>\nIn a family 10 boys and 2 girls an<br \/>\nLiving in lower BEADING  in Sussex<br \/>\nAll that time ago<br \/>\nHares and trout and deer about<br \/>\nWhen Boys just had to know<\/p>\n<p>How to tickle trout and see off Game<br \/>\nAnd get their tea<br \/>\nSo my father encouraged us to help him<br \/>\nAnd to be<br \/>\nWitH the  chickens and the rabbits<br \/>\nAnd to see they didn\u2019t run<br \/>\nTo collect the eggs and kill the birds<br \/>\nWhen their time on earth was done<\/p>\n<p>Something I would never do<br \/>\nI mean it wasn\u2019t right<br \/>\nWe had some 20 chickens<br \/>\nAnd a dozen rabbits I<br \/>\nCould no more ring their tender necks<br \/>\nWith my hands and  see them die<br \/>\nI was called the cissy<br \/>\nThe writer of poems who<br \/>\nShould be wearing dresses<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not what good sons do<\/p>\n<p>And so when I read  of the van Heerdens<br \/>\nA  hunting family they<br \/>\nClearly followed their father<br \/>\nIn the most awful way<br \/>\nThey run a mean safari group<br \/>\nIn South Africa I hear<br \/>\nWhere you can kill farmed Lions<br \/>\nHalf cocked something not to fear<\/p>\n<p>Picked up and petted by children<br \/>\nTaken from their mum<br \/>\nAll their lives in cages<br \/>\nThey make a fair old sum<br \/>\nKilling is called harvesting<br \/>\nOriginally you see<br \/>\nWorkers on the lands<br \/>\nWere called farmers actually<\/p>\n<p>But it became so lucrative<br \/>\nto just breed Lions<br \/>\nAnd use<br \/>\nTheir bodies and their bone structure<br \/>\nReally just abuse<br \/>\nThe greatest Kings that ever walked<br \/>\nBe brutal everyday<br \/>\nTrophy Lions for Heartless twits<br \/>\nWho cannot wait to pay<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so profitable more so than<br \/>\nGrowing fruit<br \/>\nFarming lions the profit margin<br \/>\nReally it does suit<br \/>\nEvery greedy bugger in South<br \/>\nAfrica does give<br \/>\nHis heart and soul to Canned hunting<br \/>\nWhere fewer wild lIONs live<\/p>\n<p>Off the chart and money will be<br \/>\nComing past your door<br \/>\nHand over fist can you resist<br \/>\nKilling them and more<br \/>\nIt\u2019s cruelty personified<br \/>\nAnd all you have to be<br \/>\nIs evil right down through your guts<br \/>\nInto eternity<\/p>\n<p>And that is what is happening<br \/>\nBastards in the West<br \/>\nWho earned their princely sums<br \/>\nDoing things I do detest<br \/>\nAnd then go off to Africa<br \/>\nand strut their stuff and will<br \/>\nKill the drugged up victims<br \/>\nWatch the blood just spill<\/p>\n<p>Out of them they sit there<br \/>\nThinking we are their friends<br \/>\nThey may even walk right up to us<br \/>\nBut that is where it ends<br \/>\nThe rifles pop like crazy<br \/>\nA lot of shots to kill<br \/>\nAnd many miss they take the piss<br \/>\nTheir actions they just chill<\/p>\n<p>In earnest we should close them down<br \/>\nEvery single one<br \/>\nthrow the bastards into gaol<br \/>\nThe only exercise they get<br \/>\nIs being whipped from head to tail<br \/>\nUse the cat o nine tails on them.<br \/>\nScar them up for life<br \/>\nBrand them murdering devils<br \/>\nLet them live the strife<\/p>\n<p>The trophy I would give them<br \/>\nIs feed them to the sharks<br \/>\nThe great whites would appreciate<br \/>\nEating all these  nArks<br \/>\nRotters bandits spivs  and traitors<br \/>\nThat\u2019s their reward we<br \/>\nDip them in fresh blood and guts<br \/>\nAnd dip them in the sea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have experienced life first hand Being the son of a Poacher man A countryman in the nineteen twenties In a family 10 boys and 2 girls an Living in lower BEADING in Sussex All that time ago Hares and &hellip; 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