snipe hunts

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/21/2010 07:19 AM, Barbara Need wrote:
>I knew about snipe hunts before I knew about snipe--and actually
>thought that snipe were mythical beasts! I was quite surprised to find
>otherwise.
>
>Barbara
>
>Barbara Need
>Ithaca

My summer camp of snipe-hunters was not too far away -- near
Cooperstown.  Was there a local prominence?

Joel

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