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Updated: May 7, 2025
You are accustomed to going to church at Holy Cross, aren't you?" "When me kid me go church." "You haven't gone since you grew up? They still have church there, don't they?" "Oh, Father Brachet, him have church." "Why don't you go?" Nicholas was vaguely conscious of threatened disapproval. "Me ... me must take up fish-traps." "Can't you do that another day?"
Fish-traps and long narrow basket-traps for quail are also made out of this willow-work. On the Bidwell ranch is an old Indian "temescal," or sweat-house. It is an underground hut, or cave dug out of a hillside, with a hole in the top for smoke to reach the air. The Indians used to build a big fire in this cave and then lie round it till dripping with sweat.
The outer rind of the Bamboo, split and shaved thin, is the strongest material for baskets; hen-coops, bird-cages, and conical fish-traps are very quickly made from a single joint, by splitting off the skin in narrow strips left attached to one end, while rings of the same material or of rattan are twisted in at regular distances.
But the uses of the lawyer cane are many and various. Blacks employ it as ropes, as stays for canoes, and, split into narrow threads and woven, for baskets and fish-traps; and white men find it handy for all sorts of purposes, from boat-painters and fenders to stock-whip and maul-handles.
Old Peagrim will have had the fish-traps open to-night, for the river will be flooded, and then you will be able to see some sport, that is if it leaves off raining."
'Aye, aye, said Job, 'the laird is something in my own line, you know a little contraband or so, There is a statute for him But no matter; he took the sands after the splore at the Quaker's fish-traps yonder; for he has a leal heart, the laird, and is always true to the country-side. But avast is all snug here?
"Here's our cousin from London; and Papa said we might bring him to see the fish-traps; and he said you were to have that for showing us," said Philip, pulling out a shilling from his pocket; which action made Bob's eyes twinkle, and removed all sleepiness.
Alongside the inner wall of the gallery stand the large wooden mortars used by the women in husking the PADI. Above these hang the winnowing trays and mats, and on this wall hang also various implements of common use hats, paddles, fish-traps, and so forth.
However, certain persons who know the proper rites of atonement for such a crime can kill wolves with impunity, and they are sometimes hired to do so by people who have suffered from the raids of the wolves on their cattle or fish-traps.
Saying which Bob took a long drink of cold tea out of the spout, and then generously offered it to all the visitors, who declared that it was such a little time since they had had breakfast that they would rather not. "More left for me then," said Bob; "and now for the fish-traps. I opened them last night, but I forgot to look this morning; so you're just right, my lads just right.
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