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I have been a reader of your good magazine for some time now, but I have never written anything for the good old magazine yet, so I thought that it was about time I was doing my little bit to help fill up the dear old H-T-T.
I am a trapper by nature, I guess; I trapped around here a little last fall. I have a family of four children to take care of; my husband is also a trapper. I didn't get rich off my trap line last fall, but I made a little spending money. I got a few skunks, mink, muskrat and weasels, my catch bringing $35.95; that isn't bad, is it?
For firearms my husband and I have a 32-40 rifle, a 22 Stevens rifle, a 28 gauge shotgun, a 32 Iver-Johnson revolver, and a 32-20 Colt's army special revolver, two good knives, a compass, a 9 x 14 tent and a good fishing outfit.
I guess I would have done better on the trap line, but there are Johnny Sneakums and also Billy Dig-em-outs. There were two fellows who took their dogs and spades and dug out everything their dogs run in. They destroyed a good many skunk dens and a good many skunks, too.
Every boy, man and some women that knew anything about a trap set them here last fall. I live in a thickly settled neighborhood and game is getting scarcer here.
We have for game, rabbits, squirrels, a few partridges and quail, but all are getting scarcer every year.
For fur we have the raccoon, skunk, mink, fox, weasel and muskrat.
Eva Nestell,
Mercer Co., Pa.
Hunter-Trader-Trapper. October: 1921,
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