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1 1987 POWELL 16 The second trap was left on the wharf and never taken off. The third was never removed from the saltwater.
2 Attrib ~ duck, ~ ice, ~ pond, ~ shellbird: red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator serrator); SHELL BIRD (1987 MONTEVECCHI & TUCK 236), ~ sore: WATER PUP.
1986 Evening Telegram 15 Mar, p. 1 [The hunters] had been camping on the islands [in Notre Dame Bay] for the past couple of weeks and were getting in the last crack at the salt water ducks before the season closed last Monday. 1987 POOLE 16 I would have to go down over a much longer and steeper hill, and then onto salt water ice, and with an iron shoe on your sled it hauls pretty hard on salt water ice. ibid 24 There was a salt water pond not very far away from me, about one hundred yards or so. 1904 Harper's cviii, p. 865 One's wrists are then covered with salt-water sores and one's palms are cracked, even though one take the precaution of wearing a brass chain.
