bag-holders were comfortably located holding a sack with a lantern immediately in front, where they patiently waited for the long-tailed ‘zuzzenbuffs’ to be run up from the rushes, being attracted by the lights, when they would enter the bag, when ‘they’ would quickly close down the bag containing a whole, school of the beautiful birds.
“Completing these preliminaries, the bunch took to the woods to run out the birds, although changing their minds and returned to town, leaving the bag-holders to wait until they had caught enough birds or until their lanterns went out.”
From—
The Pensacola Journal. (Pensacola, Fla.), 06 Sept. 1911.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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