66 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



Castle, Delaware City, Port Penn, and upon the 

 grounds on Appoquinaminky and Blackbird 

 creeks, on the Delaware side. 



It is, however, now more necessary, if possible, 

 than before, that a snipe dog, to be up to his 

 work, should be perfectly steady, and possess at 

 the same time considerable power of range. 



While the passion for field sports is largely on 

 the increase with us, agriculturists are improving 

 their lands on the great water courses, and mar- 

 ket shooters striving to be in advance of the 

 sportsman on all the choice grounds ; so that the 

 chances are, that, unless you go farther and spend 

 more time on your excursions, you will hardly 

 get your share of snipe shooting. 



How different was the case in the days of our 

 fathers, and even within the memory of our own ! 

 Who then would have thought of going thirty or 

 forty miles from home to kill snipe ? 



They were then particularly abundant in "the 

 Neck," on the marshes of the Schuylkill, and 

 along all the lesser tributaries of the Delaware. 



The shooter was then sure of finding sport on 

 Sheer's or Girard's meadows, in the vicinity of 

 the " Broad Marsh," and almost at any point be- 

 tween the Navy Yard and the Lazaretto, includ- 

 ing the drifts and low islands along the Pennsyl- 



