THE BASS ROCK 253 



The Subscriber offers for Sale 



as one of the 



MOST RARE DELICACIES OF THE SEASON, 



OOLAN GEESE EGGS, which are highly appreciated at the 



^-^ Royal Table, as testified by the following quotation from the 

 Right Hon. Earl Grey's letter to a friend who forwarded them : — 



" Buckingham Palace, May 6th, 1856. 



" I duly submitted the eggs (Solan's), which were as duly 



" handed round the table, universally tasted, and admitted to be 



" indistinguishable from Plover eggs. Royal thanks are therefore 



" your due, the expression of which I am commanded to convey. 



" Yours truly, 



{Signed) " GREY." 



PRICE 6s. PER DOZEN. 



Geo. Adams, Canty Bay, North Berwick. 



In 1876 the tenant was Mr. Kendall, who told me his 

 rent was £20, and that he depended mainly for paying it 

 on the Gannets, of which he and his men still took nearly 

 800 every year. It was worth his while he said to keep five 

 or six women plucking them at Is. 6d. a day. A good many 

 were at that time dispatched to Sheffield, some of them 

 being cooked in ovens before being sent off. I can 

 remember these ovens as far back as 1876. They were of 

 brick, and there was one at least large enough to cook four 

 Gannets at a time, the shed in which this large oven, or a 

 successor to it, stood, was still existing as recently as 1901. 

 Mr. Harvie-Brown says it used to be the plan to wrap the 

 plucked Gannets up in rhubarb leaves, before putting them 



