THE HYPOTHETICAL SNIPE HUT -- YELLOWSTONE PARK, 1872 
The snipe hunt was arranged by members of the 
Survey party for the benefit of young naturalists of 
the Survey, On a dark night, as the scheme was 
planned, the victim of the joke was induced to go to a 
designated spot supplied with a suitable sack which was 
to be held with, open mouth and with a lighted candle 
before it. The birds, surrounded and driven in by the 
members of the party, were attracted by the light, 
rushed toward it and soon filled the sack. Some of 
the boys claimed that the scheme had worked alright in 
this case, but no one fully believed it as there were 
no snipe in evidence. 
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