snipe hunts

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/21/2010 05:01 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>My earlier observations (see the "schneid and snipe oddities"
>post/thread) place the snipe hunt (or, at the time, "snipe drive")
>almost entirely in the Midwest about 80 years earlier with the possible
>origin at 100 years earlier (H. H. Riley).

But that's the midwestern "snipe drive", as in "cattle drive".  Here
in the effete east we "hunt".

Joel

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