As a boy I used to go with my cousins trapping quail. The quail traps were made of a light board box held up by a figure four trigger. When the quail would go under the trap to eat the wheat, they would touch the trigger and the box would fall trapping all the quail that were eating the grain.
The quail were placed in a chicken run and fed until they were eaten by ranch members. They were so plentiful that they attracted a lot of coyote and fox. If we did not check the quail traps every day, the wild animals would dig a hole under the box and eat the quail as they tried to crawl out from under the box.
Eating the quail made me believe the quail story recorded in the Bible, wherein the quail were so thick the children of Israel could catch them with their hands. It also increased my faith in prayer where the Saints crossing the plains prayed for food and the Lord sent the quail in abundance.
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