It's a story about a rich man, Mr. Victor Hazell, and a poor man, who is the father of Danny, the boy that tells the story. His father owned a little patch of land with a filling station on it while Mr. Hazell was the owner of all the land around. This man hunted with the hounds and gave shooting parties every October. He liked to feel important, although his noble guests despised him secretly.
The boy's father didn't like Mr. Hazell because the year before Mr. Hazell had driven his expensive Rolls- Royce to the filling station. He rudely told the boy to fill up the car. The boy's father came to help and told Mr. Hazell not to threaten his son and to go away because he didn't wish to serve Mr. Hazell.
Danny's father told him Mr. Hazell's secret: each summer Mr. Hazell bought hundreds of young birds from the pheasant farm and put them in the wood where the keepers fed them until the birds were shot by the hunters. But Danny's father wanted to find а way of getting the pheasants from Hazell's.
