A WELL-KNOWN LONG ISLAND SPORTSMAN 



ner, with a more than local reputation, 

 but he will not act as guide, and you 

 have to be on his visiting list before you 

 can get him to take you under his wing 

 and show you sport. 



The South Bay shooting is an art in 

 itself. The Great South Bay is a big 

 sheet of water, but the water is all on 

 the top, and over much of its expanse 

 a boat drawing more than a few inches 

 will stick fast in the mud ; so it comes 

 to pass that the craft in use are usually 

 big cabin cat boats, broad of beam and 

 shallow of hull, capable, like the late 

 President Lincoln's gunboats, of going 

 wherever the ground is in the least 

 damp. 



Fine shooting togs are entirely 

 thrown away in this sport. The man 

 who knows how, when he is equipped 

 for business, usually looks like the late 

 lamented Captain Kidd after he had 

 been away on a two years' cruise ; but 

 you remark, if you are fresh from the 

 city, that the worse the clothes the bet- 

 ter the man. You have replaced the well- 



cut clothing of Fifth avenue and the 

 little buttoned shoes of the same dainty 

 thoroughfare by rough sweaters and 

 gum boots. But you have also left 

 behind the narrow-chested pasty-faced 

 men of the city, for the great, sturdy, 

 broad shouldered, clear eyed baymen. 

 So, after all, there is something to be 

 thankful for. 



At Blue Point the justly famous Cap- 

 tain Will Graham holds court. Not to 

 know Captain Graham is to argue 

 yourself unknown. His headquarters 

 are the Anchorage, and, when you are 

 anchored, there is not the slightest dan- 

 ger of your ground tackle dragging, 

 nor of anything happening to you, be- 

 cause you are in a very safe and com- 

 fortable roadstead. 



Further on, at East Quogue, E. A. 

 Jackson, a prince among baymen, has 

 lived for many a long year. Jackson is 

 an all-round sportsman, a good shot and 

 a good fellow. But I think that if he 

 would own to the soft impeachment, his 

 particular weakness is the Canada 



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