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Beware a Snipe Supper

If anybody suggests "Let's take a bag and catch some snipe for a midnight supper" just look wise and say you've got to go to a barn dance or something. For this is one of the heartiest and rustiest of camp jokes, played on neophytes and greenhorns by real hunters for a century or so. They get a sucker or two, equip 'em with lanterns a bottle of fireflies will do-and stand 'em astraddle a small stream holding a burlap bag open close over the water for the snipe to fly in when the hunters go off "up stream" to drive them down. And that's the last the tenderfoot sees of the practical jokers who go right on up the river to whatever amusement they want to leave the bag holder out of. As a matter of fact, this snipe supper originated the the phrase "holding the bag."