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But they do it with traps, not exactly like mouse traps though. At 
Puget's Sound, where the Indians collect in Herring time, there are 
great mud flats, which are left bare every day when the tide goes 
out. The Indians go when they are bare, and build long lattice 
work traps, where the fish can easily go in, but not so easily get 
out. When the tide is in, the water covers the traps, and millions 
of innocent little fish go into them. By-and-by the water goes 
down, and the poor little fish can't get out, but are left high and 
dry on the bank. Then the Indians go down and take them up in 
baskets and pails. 
If you should want to visit an Indian fishing village, you 
would do well to leave your nose at home, for the odors of bad fish, 
rancid oil, Indians and dogs, combined, are too dreadful for endur- 
ance, 
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