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Being a conscientious farmer with too much time on his hands because of the pandemic visiting ban, The Dealer decided to get cracking on some scheme box ticking.
This involves the weighing of calves and cows for the second BEEP scheme or BEEP BEEP, as The Dealer likes to call it. But the word BEEP puzzled the man in the local co-op that rents out scales until he trumpeted: “You mean the sucky calf scheme!”
“I suppose I do,” said The Dealer.
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