A childhood belief about general

I went to visit my relatives in NY and my cousin played a trick on my brother and I. One evening he said, lets go snip hunting. He explained that snipes were little bird like creatures that live in the ground and get there buy digging little holes resembling snake holes. He said there's two holes for each snipe. He told us to cover up one hole of the pair and bang on the ground and scream and yell and the snipe would come shooting out the other hole and you catch it with a net. He told my brother to go inside and get a flashlight. Then I went with him to the backyard and he started digging little holes in the ground. I went along with it to fool my brother, and when he caught no snipes he suspected that he was being fooled. My cousin told him that snipes were real and to look it up on the internet. My brother soon found a site explaining the practical joke. It was so funny, I reccomend it if you want to see someone screaming and beating the ground.