AMERICAN SNIPE 39 
fifty or sixty snipe in the air at one time, circling and 
drumming; in fact, every snipe on the marsh appeared 
to be up in the air. I need hardly say that on such 
occasions the bag was small. In those good old times 
I remember in the month of October making a bag of 
105 snipe in one day; the day was a bright, warm, still 
day.” 
