Snipe Hunting

This isn't the first reference I've found to "snipe hunting," but I didn't copy the earlier one(s). I didn't realize at first that it was such an enduring tradition.


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If it isn't entirely clear from the article, the game of "snipe hunting" was played by local men on some innocent out-of-towner who'd never heard of it. Locals tell Out-of-Towner that snipe are plentiful in the woods around here, but they can be hunted only at night. If Out-of-Towner is willing to go snipe-hunting, Locals take him out in the woods, give him a lantern and a sack, tell him to hold the sack open, they will go up the snipe paths and drive the snipe back toward him. All he has to do is stand there and the snipe will run right into the open sack. Locals then depart through the woods, circle around, go back to town to have a drink and congratulate themselves on their cleverness. Out-of-Towner is left in the woods holding the bag. Eventually he realizes he's been had, and finds his way back to town, mad or amused, as the case may be.

Repeat as often as possible.