63 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



drained of late years, that unless you have some 

 acquaintance with the best localities, and are 

 able to stand rough weather,* hard work, and 

 often chagrin, to boot, you had better extend 

 your excursions. 



At Bridgeton, New Jersey, there are an 

 abundance of snipe, both in the spring and fall; 

 you will also have sport at Bombay Hook ; but 

 in the neighborhood of Dennisville, New Jer- 

 sey, are the best and most extensive snipe 

 grounds that we have any knowledge of. 



We would advise the young shooter, if he has 

 a week to spare, to go there by all means. If 



* We were shooting, in March, on the river meadows between 

 Pennsgrove and Craven's Ferry, during a gale from the south-east, 

 when an extraordinary high tide suddenly swept away about fifty 

 feet of the bank, through which the water came roaring in so fast 

 that the dogs were swimming round us, and we were actually up to 

 our waists before we could reach the fast land. The meadows were 

 submerged for miles, and numbers of sheep and hogs drowned, the 

 carcasses of which lay scattered about, while we were killing snipe 

 at low water over portions of the same ground on the next day. 



On another occasion, in Robinson's meadows, on Salem Creek, 

 having found birds plentiful but very wild, we at last succeeded in 

 driving them across a ditch into a cat-tail swamp, where we had 

 them at advantage, inasmuch as the cover being high, they were 

 inclined to lie close. In the midst of our sport the tide stole a 

 march upon us, and we were forced to give over shooting and wade 

 the ditch, which we had previously crossed without much dif- 

 ficulty. 



