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...Trapper...
...Cape country Author Harriss writes about was a fox country. Bears still snuffled through the woods, and otter and coon and deer were plentiful, but the only enemy foxes had to fear was man. In the swamp where the Vixen bore her litter lived one of them, an Indian trapper. No sport, he killed for his living. But he accounted for fewer foxes than the local hunt, whose master was the hard-drinking widower Cap'n, squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps...
...Trapper...
Wild ducks trap best on nights when a cold nor'wester blows. On two such nights Orin D. Steele, Federal Game Management Agent, and his deputy wardens lay shivering for hours in a marsh off Virginia's Eastern Shore, waiting for Trapper Tom Reed. Each night Reed approached, fled without touching his traps. At last Agent Steele realized that the trapper was warned by the absence of duck, which, once flushed by the wardens, returned no more that night. On Dec. 20, 1934, in daylight, the agent and two deputies rose up from the marsh, surprised Tom Reed...
...about the source of their customers' cash. But when Federal men arrested Tom Reed and one Bill Powell they were sure they had the Al Capones of ducklegging. Last week Tom Reed, a clean-cut, well-dressed young man, went on trial in Federal Court at Norfolk, Va. Trapper Reed swore that on Dec. 20, 1934 he was in Pocomoke, Md. doing his Christmas shopping. Pocomoke merchants backed him up. Despite Agent Steele's positive identification, the judge ordered Tom Reed acquitted...