trap-cages

Updated: June 12, 2025

We had, at different times, a variety of pets, of whom Annie did not take much notice. Sometimes we had young partridges, caught by the drummer-boys in trap-cages. The children called them "Bob and Chloe," because the first notes of the male and female sound like those names.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Army Life in a Black Regiment