For playground, field, and forest; the outdoor handy book (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 483
hich wasarmed with an ironhook (Fig. 403) andthe other with aniron spike. A gen-tleman well known among naturalists accompanied me, andled me to the haunts of the snappers. Flowing througha wide pasture was a small creek with rather high banks.Along the edge we walked until we came upon the stumpof… … Fig. 404.—Turtle Hunter and Turtle Stick. Turtle Htmtmg 457 below the surface struck something- hard. I could tell bythe feel that it was neither stone nor wood. Hastily re-versing my pole I thrust the iron hook into the yieldingsoil, and, working it under the hard object, found little dif-ficulty…
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