the gear slipped once more and the driver cursed again , but this time more harshly ; telling the empty air what he thought of people who said that all the rangers were drunks , without knowing anything about taking orders that might lead to your needing to shoot a man from your own village who was hunting ivory because he was poor ; maybe even wondering if the same man who was giving you the orders might also be paying your neighbour to go out and steal tusks .