108 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



the usual places in vain, to the great annoyance 



of , who, having found them abundant for 



several successive days previous, could in no 

 wise account for the sudden disappearance. 



" Where do you shoot snipe ?" inquired Krider, 

 after the other had completely exhausted him- 

 self and his patience in his fruitless endeavors to 

 show sport. 



" In yonder meadow," answered ; " but 



you will find none there at this season." 



" Let us try, nevertheless," said Krider. 



After much persuasion he consented to lead 

 the way, and in this meadow they killed twenty- 

 seven cocks, to the great delight and suprise of 



, who was now extremely anxious to visit all 



such golden spots within the compass of a day's 

 hunt. The party brought in forty-five birds at 

 night-fall, every one of which was killed in the 

 meadows. 



On another occasion, in the year eighteen 

 hundred and forty-one, Mr. Krider, in company 

 with a friend, killed sixty-three birds in a range 

 of meadows and a maple swamp near Rights- 

 town, New Jersey, by ten o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, returning to Philadelphia the same day. 

 The ground at this place has been so much im- 

 proved since his visit that few birds are to be 

 found there at the present day. 



