Get Two Sticks And Hit Them Together

McSweeney’s continues its excellent “Interviews with people who have interesting or unusual jobs” series with Suzanne Yeagley’s conversation with Michael Blake, who, as a young man, had a job as a pheasant beater in Tasmania. He was paid $40 a day to “get two sticks and hit them together” so rich people could shoot some birds.

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