220 DUCK-SHOOTING. 
The island is not large, but wherever it is tillable, 
a garden, orchard, and grapery have been planted, 
and furnish the household with delicious fruit and 
vegetables. Quail have been introduced, and, being 
protected by the regulations of the establishment, 
have increased and multiplied; and wild turkeys 
occasionally commit upon the vines depredations 
which are condignly punished. It is a lovely spot, 
far from other habitations, and affords shelter during 
the fall months to as pleasant a set of Spat NrenPm as 
can be found the world over. 
The President, with his short figure and grey hair, 
but sharp, clear eye, was selected for his superior 
success as a marksman, and rarely returns from a 
day’s excursion without a boat-load of game. The ~ 
Vice-President and Secretary are the only other 
officers, and upon their fiat it depends whether any 
outsider shall trespass upon their inland Paradise. 
Promiscuous invitations were once extended to the 
brethren of the gun and rod, but so many spurious 
counterfeits presented themselves, that a stringent 
rule had to be adopted to exclude all but the genuine 
article. 
The shooting lasts from the 1st of September till 
the chill breath of winter closes the bay and drives 
the birds to more hospitable localities. It is pursued 
in a small, light, flat-bottomed boat, similar, on a 
larger pattern, to the rail-boats used on the Dela- 
ware. Each boat is provided with a pair of oars 
working on pins that fit imto outriggers; and also 
with a long setting-pole, which has a bent wire, like 
