D.C.B. Photography © 2013
Tales of a Yokel
Yarns from the inimitable FCR Esgen
BAY OF PIGS by FCR ESGEN I suppose it was when a pack of wild boar came down from Dartmoor and ravaged Tavistock on market day a few of years ago that this ancestor of the pig family began to be taken seriously. By the time the police got there, the boar had hoofed it out of town, leaving behind them turned over market stalls, half eaten cheese tasters, and an astonished populace that could hardly believe this type of wild
west behaviour could occur in our high speed broadband age. Not since before the enclosures have there been wild boar in Britain. Back then the peasantry viewed them no more than a gigantic buffet on legs and hunted them into extinction. Now escapees from boar farms have re- colonised vast tracts of England and Wales. But really, who can blame the peasants. If you
have been fortunate enough to dive into a joint of roast boar with morello cherry sauce you will understand why most of them used to end up on a spit. The taste is rather like free range pork with strong gamey overtones. My own encounters with these creatures is rather more close to home; in the woods over the road actually. Unbeknownst to most of the populace living in my road, there lives in these woods an old man called Jock, who
survives on a diet of rabbits and pigeons and whatever else his lurcher dog can find. He and a friend were out the other day doing a spot of wood combing when they were challenged by a boar or as Jock calls them, a wild pig. The boar charged them and with great presence of mind, Jock banged it over the head with his stick. All that is left now is a few bones as a reminder of the biggest feast two people have ever enjoyed. © 2013
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