Danny is a nine-year old boy who lives in a gypsy caravan. His mother died when he was four months old. Since then, his father has been taking care of him. His father is a mechanic who never run out of wonderful stories to tell. Life was very peaceful until Danny was told of one of her dad's deep dark secrets. His dad used to do poaching which is stealing other people;s stuff. People who do poaching consider it as a sport. His dad had learned it because his dad used to do it. It was because back then people were very poor in England that they barely had anything to eat. Danny's father was so addicted to it that he continued to do it even though he had enough to eat and drink. However, he had stopped when his wifed had died and promised himself not to do it again until Danny was old enough to be alone. Now he had broken his promise and told everything about it. They mainly steal roost pheasant which is a similar animal to a rooster. Danny grandfather knew the easy way to catch them- raisins. There were two methods to catch them. The first method was to was to stick horsehair and to wait for the animals to come eat it. When they it it, their throat would be very itchy that they will stay very still. The second method is that you lay the raisins the direction you want your animal to come. They will follow the raisin path. Eventually, they will dig their heads in the paper cone and they will stay very still even though you poke or shout at them. Danny;s dad promises him that he will that him someday when he gets his skills back.
Mr. Hazell's house was the was the target for every poacher. He was very rich but had a bad attitude which was way people hated him much more and would always revenge in a unusual way. Danny's father said that he would go poaching today too and that he had always been poaching at Mr. Hazell's house. Almost everyone in the town did the poaching at Mr. Hazzel's house.
It was one day when Danny's father went poaching and promised that he would come back bye ten-thirty. Danny woke up at two in the the morning and he was four hours due to his father's time! Quickly without thinking, Danny got into his father's car and started driving to the rich man's house. When he reached that place, he noticed that his father fell in a big hole and the people who was guarding Mr.Hazell's place had planned all of this. With luck, they could not see his father's face because it was too dark. They quickly escaped and called a doctor who was a friend of Danny's father. When Danny's father was all recovered and after the Doctor gave him sleeping pills(which he never ate), he told Danny a gravy secret. He said that once a year, at Mr. Hazell's house, lots of royal people would come and bring guns and would have a shooting party. They would bring pheasants home with them for a gift. Danny's dad said that he would like to steal ALL the 200 pheasants . Danny told his dad that this was imposible but later he had an idea. He told his dad that he should the second method but put a little sleeping pills. Danny's father called this the Sleeping Beauty method and that they had to do this in two days- thursday and friday. On friday.Danny's dad said that he would not need to go to school and also that that he could come poaching that day too. Danny is very scared but excited at the same time.
At the end, they had acomplished their plan but the sleeping pills did not last. Mr. Hazell came to their house and the pheasants flew to his car so Mr. Hazell drove the car to make them go away but they did not. It left Danny and his father 2 pheasants to eat. They had a wonderful feast and it ended in a dramatic way.
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