A BIG CLAM HASH 195 



island/' So with our experience, so freely 

 related, they decided prudence in this case 

 should be the better part of valour, and so 

 gave up the hunt for the day in that 

 form. 



On our way up over theice with the sled- 

 load of geese, we noticed three rise up from 

 the decoys at the blind, and go up Fox 

 Harbour to the channel. Seeing that, S. 

 decided he was going to spend a couple of 

 hours in that blind towards sundown, to try 

 for a shot. The cook, in expectation of our 

 arrival, had a most attractive meal ready for 

 us. I don't believe you could guess, as the 

 boys say, in six guesses. He was an old 

 stager about Derry Island, and knew just 

 where to go for clams, so he had taken his 

 axe to cut the ice, and his hoe for the clams, 

 and thus secured ample for a big clam hash 

 made up of fat pork, onions, clams, bread- 

 crumbs, and a number of etceteras, that helped 

 to make it a most enjoyable dish. Don't think 

 this was all. We weren't living on starvation 

 rations. Don't you get that idea. We went 

 there to live like fighting cocks, and you 

 might have been there too, right now ; but a 



