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States dumped along there annually, it is 

 rich as cream is rich. 



The fish, fowl, oysters of Barra Tarra 

 ah, the oysters! No oysters in the world 

 like these for flavor, size and sweetness. 

 They are so enormous in size that but let 

 me illustrate their size by an anecdote of 

 the war. 



A Yankee captain, hungry and worn out 

 hewing his way with his sword from Chi- 

 cago to the sea, as General Logan had put 

 it, sat down in a French restaurant in New 

 Orleans, and while waiting for a plate of 

 the famous Barra Tarra raw oysters, saw 

 that a French Creole sitting at the same 

 little side table was turning over and over 

 with his fork a solitary and most tempting 

 oyster of enormous size, eyeing it ruefully. 



"Why don't you eat him?" 



"By gar! I find him too big for me. You 

 like?" 



"Certainly. Not too big for me. See 

 this!" and snatching the fork from the 

 Frenchman the oyster was gone at a gulp. 



