here's something from an outdoor book written in 1908,the quote is from an source that was old even then.on the chapter heading about two fellows going off on a fishing trip to Nova Scotia.
And let us buy for the days of spring, While yet the north winds blow! For half the joy of the trip,my boy Is getting your traps to go.
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