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Title
The Pioneersman (Detail)
Subject
Clumfield, trapping
Description
This detail of The Pioneersman includes a poem written about Clumfield’s victory in a great battle as well as a information about how to trap a woodchuck.
Creator
Nelsons
Source
Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Rights
Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Type
Manuscript periodical
File
Transcription
The Pioneersman (Detail)
CLUMFIELD
Clumfield won in a great battle
Loud the shot and shell did rattle
Under the royal flag he hailed
Mid many dangers he sailed
For the [enemy’s] ship he steered, but
In to a fog at night he got
Every thing was tried in vain
Loud the wind blasts came
Darkness was darkness sure
Dark specks the ship did lure
At last the morning dawns
Yet many a seaman yawns
In sight of land they come
Such sights are not at home
How the brave men [cheared]
Even when the Indians they feared
Right to land they came
Ever the forest was full of game.
Ida Green.
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HOW TO TRAP THE WOODCUCK
The woodchuck is rather sly and can not usually be caught away from his when danger is round he is a very watchful animal and a fierce fighter when made to fight and some dogs are [unsure(?)] of this and will not jump on them when that is fating them – but waits for a chance to take it at disadvantage. dogs will a good many times get in between the woodchuck and hole and so catch them but usually they will get them into a stone heap or wall, and bark at them till the[y] get tired of it or some one comes and gets it out for them.
The woodchuck is a brownish yellow in the winter it stays asleep till it comes warm again the best time to trap them is in the last part of April or through May it being the time that they come out the [oftenest] though they can be trapped till in to September. To set a trap for them, [scoop] out a place just the size of the trap when set and two inches