A DAY’S SPORT ON GRINDSTONE ISLAND. 27 
Ravens were very common. I must have seen over a 
dozen of them. Gulls were also numerous, mostly in large 
flocks, as if preparing to go south. 
On the way back I observed a Short-eared Owl (Brachy- 
otus palustris) flying low over a field, but was unable to 
obtain a shot at it. 
We were very hungry, and were glad enough to find that 
our hostess had been on the watch for us, and had dinner 
all ready upon our arrival. Any one who knows how hungry 
a man can get after a hard day’s shooting will appreciate, as 
we did, the dinner which we sat down to, beginning with 
Plover and Curlew, cooked to a turn, boiled potatoes, corn 
bread, white bread and jelly, and ending with an old-fash- 
ioned plum pudding, with hot coffee and cold spring water 
to wash them down. 
After dinner it was our custom, in fine weather, to roll 
into the hammocks in front of the house and enjoy our 
cigars in the moonlight, while the only sounds that broke 
the peaceful silence of the scene were the occasional “ good- 
night” notes of the Golden-crowned Thrush and the indis- 
tinct sound of the waves breaking upon the beach. 
