Jan. 7, 1911.] 
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which are persistent resorts of the partridge, 
the cock bird especially making them his 
favorite promenading ground. The wire is 
made into a slipping noose?, which is suspended 
above the ground or log, and spread out so 
that the bird in walking thrusts his head and 
neck through it. The pressure of his body 
against it as he walks on draws the noose to 
and the bird is soon strangled. 
“When the snare is set on the ground little 
pens are built by making a miniature fence by 
sticking twigs in the ground around three sides 
of a space three or four feet square. One end 
of the pen is left open. In the other end a small 
space is left in the center of the fence. In that 
opening the snare’s noose is suspended. The 
bird in making its way along walks into the pen 
at the open end. The sides of the enclosure 
keep it headed straight for the open space at 
the other end of the open, where the noose is 
hanging. As the unsuspecting bird passes out 
through that opening it is caught by the wire 
and strangled to death. 
The partridge killed by these wire snares 
•during a year in that region amount to many 
hundreds. Sportsmen and others tramping 
through the woods and among other haunts of 
this game bird discover and destroy many of 
the snares, but not one in ten is ever detected. 
As this illegal method of killing this greatest 
of American game birds has got in its destruc¬ 
tive work for many years, rivalling the on¬ 
slaughts of the fox, weasel, hawk and other 
natural enemies of the bird, the wonder is that 
the game is still to be found at all in any of its 
old-time haunts, but it is there yet in astonish¬ 
ingly large numbers. 
And speaking of this snaring of partridge 
reminds me. One of my fellow citizens who 
stands very high among us for probity and gen¬ 
eral estimable qualities, and who kept his dog 
and his gun and almost invariably came in with 
a nice bag of partridges, to the envy of us less 
fortunate hunters, has this fall not indulged 
himself at all in his favorite sport. If there 
ever was one among us who railed fiercely and 
at all times against the copper wire snare and 
its patron, it was this most estimable fellow 
citizen of mine. 
“I , was out one day after birds and luck 
hadn t come my way. As I was trudging 
through the woods I came to a copper wire 
snare set among some old grapevines, a likely 
pl ace for a snare to get in its deadly work, 
which this one had done, for hanging in the 
noose was a fine hen partridge. My first im¬ 
pulse was to tear out the snare, but it struck 
me it would be a good idea to lie in wait and 
find out who had set it, as he would doubtless 
be coming along after a while, looking over 
his line of traps, for it wasn’t likely that this 
was his only one. So I hid in the bushes and 
waited. 
I didn t have to wait long. The owner of 
the snare came quietly out of the woods and 
made straight for the snare. He had a gun 
and his dog was with him. He also had as I 
could see by its bulge, his bag well filled with 
game. He took the bird out of the snare I had 
discovered, set the snare again, added the bird 
to his bag and was going on when I stepped 
out. Nobody could have been more surprised 
and taken aback than he was except myself 
when I saw who the owner of the snare was. 
It was my highly esteemed fellow citizen whose 
indignation against copper wire snares and 
snarers had always been so great! 
What could he say? Not much of anything, 
think. But I- know he would rather have 
given a thousand dollars that minute than have 
me or any one else there. I never had the heart 
to expose the highly esteemed citizen but he 
quit going hunting, ardent sportsman as he had 
been, and every one of his fellow citizens except 
me wonders why.”*—The Sun. 
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