134 Where to Hunt 



and gray squirrel are to be found here. Cotuit is a 

 good place for game. Freeman Green, whose post- 

 office address is Santuit, will accommodate sportsmen. 

 Marston's Mills, near by the town of Cotuit, has some 

 excellent snipe-grounds. There is good coon hunting 

 also at this place. George L. Hamlin will give informa- 

 tion to sportsmen desiring to visit that country. Near 

 Centerville there is a sheet of water known as Great 

 pond, where many wild fowl are annually shot. There 

 is some quail and grouse shooting there. A. S. Cros- 

 by will accommodate sportsmen. At Hyannis there 

 are a number of inland ponds where shoal-water duck 

 are generally found in fair numbers. There is some 

 grouse and quail shooting in this neighborhood. 



It is said that there are no ruffed grouse found on 

 Cape Cod below the town of Orleans, but quail are 

 found over the entire cape. At Yarmouth there is 

 good wild fowl shooting. Follin's pond, Kelley's bay, 

 and Bass river usually afford fair duck shooting. There 

 is also shore-bird shooting in this neighborhood, and 

 some upland shooting. There are a few deer in the 

 town of Yarmouth. 



Crossing the cape from Centerville to Barnstable, a 

 distance of some six miles, there are some excellent 

 w r ild fowl shooting waters. Barnstable bay, between 

 Sandy Neck light and the great marshes and the sec- 

 tion known as Scoton's Neck, has been for years a 

 great resort for wild fowl. Black duck are also killed 

 there. 



At Nine Mile pond in this town duck and geese are 

 killed annually in large numbers. At Nansett harbor 

 there is some good shooting. At Eastham good quail 



