256 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



his heavy gun in the midst, making tremen- 

 dous slaughter ; observing that his companion 

 did not rise from his recumbent position at the 

 report, he spoke to and touched him, but he did 

 not answer or stir ; and upon turning him up 

 and looking in his face, he perceived that he 

 was dead. The man, probably, had some 

 organic disease of the heart. 



Although the men of the Chesapeake scruple 

 not to aver that we have no wild fowl shooting 

 worthy of the name, on the Delaware, for all 

 that, as we sit in our sanctum, we seem to see, 

 with prophetic eye, a host of grizzled, weather- 

 beaten faces ready to start up, amid a terrible 

 quacking and honking, to tell them a different 

 tale. In fact, it is upon the Delaware, that the 

 greatest skill and fertility of stratagem are 

 brought into play, in paddling to the best ad- 

 vantage upon the watchful mallard, (arias 

 boschas) the wary black duck, (anas obsura) 

 the shy sprig-tail, (anas acuta) the swift 

 butter-ball or buffel-headed duck, (anas albeola) 

 the lively blue-bill or scaup duck, (anas 

 marilla) the restless south-southerly, (anas 

 glacialis) the delicate little teal of either va- 

 riety, and many others. Until the sportsman 

 has laid his ear, as it \vere, to the light ripple 



