Testing the market for reactions

I RETURNED to the local mart sales ring last week, to be met by an older gentleman who had an axe to grind after reading this column last week. “Them socialists in the Government will have a field day because of you.”

Whaa?

“You said you made six or seven hundred euro on them cattle you sold last week. That’s all them fellas want. They’ll think we’re all making a fortune. You didn’t say anything about the cost of replacing them.”