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terrapins, its canvas-backs, its oysters and its fish, this may be done 

 with safety ; and among the pleasantest recollections that a stranger 

 may have shall be those of a Maryland kitchen in the "season." 

 Visitors from the mother-country seldom overlook it, and they have 



AT THE CLUB IN COLONIAL DAYS. 



recorded their sentiments ever since the old colonial days. In these 

 of rapid transit, it were strange if our transatlantic cousins did 

 know more about it ; and Liverpool receives many a crate of 

 canvas backs, many a barrel of choice oysters, and many a can of 

 terrapin, cunningly packed in Baltimore. There have recently been 

 dinners given in London and Paris at which every article of food 

 upon th< table came from America. 



shores within reach of Baltimore are of considerable extent 

 and are for the most part owned by wealthy citi/< ins. In winter 



known as '•ducking-shores,"' in summer as " fishing- shor 



Some are leased to "clubs.* just as trout and salmon rivers are in 



England and Scotland and Norway, but a majority are private prop- 



and are carefully guarded. The .lucks of the Chesapeake are 



the same birds that are seen in Hudson's Bay and on the northern 



