Word: trapsing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fagles made special effort in his translation to avoid the old-fashioned type of stilted, impenetrable rendering that forces the reader into saccadic conniptions in the search for a sentence's subject. With a smile he recognizes such age-old traps of translation in his book's postscript: "Not a...
Question One also seeks to ban the hunting of bears and bobcats with dogs and the use of padded traps, which can result in mutilation of captured animals.
Jo Anne Preston, a board member of the Cambridge Civic Association and a supporter of the proposal, says the ballot question came partially as a result of the Fisheries and Wildlife Board's recent decision to expand the number of traps hunters are allowed to place on their property.
"Cranberry farmers will tell you that they need these traps to prevent wildlife from eating up their profits," Vernon says.
Banning leghold traps and hounding would keep countless animals from needless pain and suffering. This fundamental point is lost on some opponents of Question One. "Hunting is sort of like if you have a crop of carrots and the crop is coming up too thick and you have to weed...