I wrote Spook the gamekeeper into Welcome to Oakhaven because he is, or was, when I was a lad, part of the countryside. He is often depicted as an enemy of the gamekeeper but I found they tended to shared a real love of the country, the woods and the wildlife. Those old poachers didn't rape the countryside but took only what they could eat, or a few birds or fish for an old woman or someone needy. That's what I remember of the country village, how they helped each other.
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