Snipe Hunting!

I know, I know, snipes are real!  I had some older half brothers and they were around from time to time. When they were around I was generally picked on, but most of the time not too bad! It is always good to have people tease you, as you learn not to be so gullible. Well at the time I believe the city we lived in was Red House, but we lived right beside a cemetery. I was maybe in the first grade at the time and well had no real grasp on the whole ghost thing. My brothers however felt different about how I viewed the "Creepy Cemetery."

Just to give a small back story, I had hamasters and such that always got away and was into the small animals. Well my brothers decided to tell me that snipes were small fury little hamster like animals that I could catch only at night.

Well before one can catch a snipe one must prepare the trap! What was the trap? A brown paper bag...I know, I know, what!? Yeah, but there was a catch! I had to color the inside of this brown paper bag black! Lord knows I probably didn't have a black crayon left in my house after that. Yeah I did it and had to wait for night.

Night came and I grabbed my bag and my brother took me out to a nice secluded spot with bag in hand. It was rather dark where he decided to take me. "Now hold the bag open on the ground and when it runs in there close it up tight!," my brother told me. I some how think I can still hear the snickering in his voice when he said it, but who knows. My brother, not the snipes, scurried off to the house and proceeded to wait for me to come running in the house scared! Yes that is all this was about scaring me.

Well the great joy of having scared little brother never came. I sat there waiting for the little bugger to run into my bag and it never happened, instead my brother came out and told me to come in. WHAT?! "No such thing as snipes?!" Yeah thanks buddy my hamster ran off and I had nothing to fill it's cage thanks to you. Hehe, good one! Not! :)