The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-12-03
A TRAPPER TRAPPED
Pr ctical Jokes oheap-A Raise In
the Snipe Market.

A bright young doctor who halls
from the icy North where he has
shot many brace OF snipe has had
some experience in snipe trapping,
as it is carried out by the practical
joker's among Honolulu's sports.
The method of catching snipe in
a bag had been explained to the
doctor aud his mouth was watering
in anticipation OF the toothsome
dish of snipe which he had pros
poets of gaining with the assistance
OF his friends.
The merry hunters and the doctor
set out for Kamoiliili last evening
on suipe-trapping expedition.
When the party arrived at the Ka'
moiliili stream, council Of war was
held, and the doctor was assigned
position some distance from the
main road, where he was to have
charge of the bag into which he ex-
pected the snipe to be allured by
the light of lantern placed behind
the bag while the other hunters"
were to beat the surrounding coun-
try and drive the birds down to the
river.
The doctor was piloted by one of
the hunters, through the lantana
bushes over stone and rocks, until
suitable" spot for the placing of
the bag was found The bag was
placed in position and doc. received
instructions what to do. He was
told to cit quite still aud watch the
lautern. He was informed that he
must keep his ears elongated listen
ing to the whistling cry OF the birds
which, disturbed by the beaters,
would run towards the lantern and
enter the bag. There was no fear
of them running out Of the bag after
once caught, as they would rather
enjoy swimming around in the water
with which the bag would be partly
filled from the stream.
The young trapper was then told
to have patience for an hour or two
as the heaters had TO 20 over a
pretty big piece Of country. With
few more fatherly advices and a
handful of matches to light his pipe
and the lantern in case the snipe
should blow it out, the young gen
tlemap, who is an expert on tuber
culosis and tuberculine but evident
ly not on snipe, was left on his
lonely vigil
1t was about o'clock ia the even
ing and the moon shone brightly
The "boys" left the doctor, but in.
stead of beating" the country they
got into their rigs and drove to town
intensely amused at the position Of
the trapper who being OF sporting
inclinations bet one of the party
who was supposed to hold bag in
another place, dozen of beer thai
his (the doctor's) trap would get the
biggest number of birds.
While the boys we're laughing il
town the doctor sat patiently along
the river straning his power of hear
: ing to catch the whistling notes o
the advancing" snipes. Mosquitoes
as big as mules, swarmed aroun(
the doctor aud their musical buzz
ing evidently drowned the cry o
the snipe at least the doctor onl.
heard the buzz,
The doctor got tired. He though
! of home aud wondered why the
{ don't trap snipe in Denmark, AM
then no listened again for the voic
of the snipe which never came.
Let us drop the curtain on tn
9 melancholic scene, and let it sutfic
I that a doctor who evidently ha
y heen dragged through a lantan
v bush arrived at midnight in Homo
( lulu on one OF Paul Isenberg's mil
y Wagons, having lost his temper an
l. the birds which it is presumed b
. t.annaH