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FOREST AND STREAM 
January, 1922 
^‘How to Trap the Mink” 
I have trapped over five States and have never met anyone using 
my method except those that have bought and followed the in- 
structions given in my book, which 1 sell for 75c. per copy. 
I took one hundred and fifty-three Mink in one season in 
Eastern Kansas alone. I trapped these Mink where there were 
plenty of other trappers that were not faring as well, and in 
that territory there were not as many Mink as could be found 
in other sections. 
My method is fully described in my latest book containing 3,500 
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Write me as early as possible 
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Lawrence, Kansas 
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agoin’ t’marry some hussy” — Bill that 
had helped him all these years — “an’ he 
hadn’t a cent in the world,” If he was 
only ten years younger “he’d go t’ sea, 
that’s what he’d do — but he was on’y a 
durned old worn-out sand-crab, and” — 
he shook the jug again without convic- 
tion; did we have just a drop aboard the 
sharpie? — “a drop for a poor old sand- 
crab — th’ best sailor” — 
I think it struck Pete and myself at 
practically the same instant. We did 
have a drop; and we needed a sailor — a 
“sand-crab” sailor in particular, who 
knew all that circuitous passage en route 
to the Rockaway Inlet. Pete looked at 
me and I looked at Pete. And, figura- 
tively and actually, we laid instant hold 
of that ancient mariner. Acting as 
crutches on either side, we propelled him 
gently yet firmly to the edge of the sand, 
pounced him into our gunning skiff and 
pulled away from shore. There were 
shouts and yells from the recovering 
roysterers; a return fire of feeble cheers 
from Cap’n Joe, who entirely mistook the 
sentiments of his late companions. He 
assured us, however, that they were nav- 
igators and could make their way back 
to Bayshore, and while I had my doubts 
on this head, I was still willing to take 
the chance. 
Cap’n Joe was sleeping serenely by 
sunset, and we got up sail and slipped out 
into the bay. A light air blew from the 
westward, and taking turns at the stick, 
Pete and I coaxed the Noah some eight 
or ten miles down the beach before 
striking narrow waters when we finally 
dropped our hook. I figured that when 
morning came wc could put our propo- 
sition up to Joe. If he agreed to stick 
with us, well and good ; we would be 
started, at least, on our homeward way. 
If he refused to continue longer we’d 
simply put him off somewhere and pay 
his way back to Bayshore. We might 
have spared ourselves the least anxiety. 
First and last, Joe was a “sailor” — a 
sailor who only lacked a ship and gener- 
ous mates to ship with. We tried to do 
our part. 
A DETAILED account of our prog- 
ress through the Long Island mead- 
ows would be merely repetition. Each 
day we wormed our way in and out of a 
seemingly endless marsh. I swore at one 
time we were traveling in circles, becom- 
ing so certain of this, at last, that I sat 
at the stern of the sharpie and scattered 
paper in our wake. Should we happen 
upon these papers again I meant to 
drown old Joe. I used Washington Mar- 
ket shipping tags to mark our dawdling 
trail. Everything has an ending and, of 
course, in time we escaped from those 
tortuous channels and ran into Jamaica 
Bay. Out of Rockaway Inlet and down 
the coast to Gravesend Bay, and our 
pilot went over the side with mutual ex- 
pressions of esteem. Cap’n Joe confided 
to us at parting that he expected to in- 
vest the amount of his fee in a barrel of 
“hard-head” rum. 
It only remains to say that by noon of 
the following day the old Noah, showing 
scars here and there from her winter’s 
experience, slipped lazily into home 
waters, and her crew disbanded promptly 
In Wiitinu to Adveriisars mention Forest enj Streaw, IS will identify yon» 
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