Back in the day, fresh meat was usually something you provided by hunting for it...Folks who didn't have money to buy a gun or bullets to use in it sometimes made traps and snares, but Daddy used a rabbit gum mostly ...As I recall ..Rabbit gums ...and I have no idea where that name came from...were made of scrap lumber about 8 to 10 inches wide...They were slightly taller than wide....About 2 feet long or so. It was set up with bait inside and there was a trigger deal that the rabbit tripped when going inside to get the corn , cabbage leaf or whatever and a trap door slid down behind a little bar. You would set it up along a fence row or somewhere that had a trail beaten down in the grass....When you 'ran' your lines you could see if the trap had caught anything because the door would be down....Sometimes the critter was lucky and got away and sometimes you caught a skunk, squirrel or pussy cat. Anything you caught would be mad at you, as you can imagine..... I remember one morning when we were walking to school...4 and a half miles or so...we saw a rabbit setting under the roots of a tree on the side of the road....Rain had washed the dirt away and made a little cave deal....Sometimes these shy animals will just freeze in place, hoping you won't see them...Well, we surrounded that bugger and caught him, then hated to turn him loose. When nobody else would do it I volunteered to tote him back home...about a mile into our trip...I guess Mama saw me coming because she came out on the porch...I handed her the rabbit, turned around and walked to school by myself....I was 8 or 9 years old and very scrawny.....I don't remember her saying anything....just looked at me strangely....That unlucky rabbit tasted mighty good that night...fried up a golden brown......We toted a possum home from school one day....it's tail curled around a stick the whole way.....Two of us at a time took turns, and when he decided to stop sulling up we would tap him with a little stick and he would play dead again....We thought this was hilarious....Yep, kids today are a mite different.......Jeannie T ____________________________________________________________ Moms Asked to Return to School Grant Funding May Be Available to Those That Qualify. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d3e60bc3916af071m06duc