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mountain, having 1<» learned to read the signs that aiinounec the lumbering beast's territory. "That's piod *-atin' too. 'l ou have to soak the meat in baking soda, the same as with deer. It nets the wild stink out of anything."
I tollman uses the same baking soda treatment to remove offensive odors from snapping turtles, (hue deodorized, tile meat is a delicacy, he maintained. "Tastes like chicken, only better." He dips the parboiled pieces in pancake batter and fries them .just as lie would a batch of drumsticks. The smaller chunks of turtle meat are dropped into boiling water and cooked down with assorted vegetables for soup.
He catches snappers in nearby ponds, either by reaching under the banks with his hands and feeling for a tail (snoodling) or hooking them on a line baited with a rotten chicken gizzard. They're tossed into a burlap feed sack for the trip back to Donovan's house and their appointment with dest iny. "Don't use t hose plast ic feed sacks. They're no good. The turtles will sulTicale,”
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