One Of My Favorite Places
The woods was always one of my favorite places to spend time day or night, I had learn the names of most trees by the time I was ten or eleven years old. (I remember visiting in Indianapolis, Indiana and had the opportunity to go on a camping trip with the boy scouts. When we took a hike in the woods they were amazed how I knew the names of most of the trees by looking at a leaf that they had taken from a tree.)

When We Ran A Trap Line
We would hunt and trap for many different species. Opossum brought $.50 and a muskrat $2.00, fox $6.00- $9.00, brown mint $8.00 - $12.00, silver mink $20.00 $30.00, the sliver mink were very few back then.

When we ran a trap line, there were different ways of setting the traps, depending on what one was trying to catch. The muskrat was the easiest to catch. The silver fox or mink was the hardest to find and catch, they brought the best price when sold. To run the trap line we would start around five in the morning to make our rounds. We would need to check all traps and then reset the ones that had been thrown or take the varmint that had been caught in the traps. The catch needed to be skinned and stretched on a board to dry and later when cured they could be taken to the buyer. From my recollections of days gone by.