Jcly SO, 1882.) 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



489 



FOREST AND STREAM SCHEDULE 



feSCEPTIOSla, LOCAL LAWS 



Alabama.— Law applies to counties of He 

 ■win, Marec rndes. Bale, Dallas ''■ 



... 

 ...-:.■_"• . s, float, sne*] 

 and battery fortri Men. 

 Arizona and Arkansas— Have no game laws. 

 California. -In Lassen, Plumas. Sierrh 



gl'UU-e. mallard, v.ajn.l. O'al, spOOaUll, "■ 



15 to March 15. Deer i iw J Q 1 , : : :den CO kill females. 



Colorado.— Game may be Immediate use as 



speculative purpose; forbidden. 



Connecticut.— Uauie export Wildfowl may 



l)e snot only with gun "sue.i as is common^ 



shooting from Hailing or steam vessel or -ink-box. on feed- 

 taw 1 ickerel, black bass. 



niasealonge. I.oea.l fi-li ! 



Dakota. Hnntitifj ... I ind 

 consent forbidd ,, . . - . , 



or parts of huffalo, ell;, !■■■ r. ■■-.- '■ ■■■■. 



rds forbidden, except r a 



plover, curlew ears be sold, Aug. 1.5 to Dee. 31. for consuutptio 

 food, within Territory. 



Delaware.— Kuffed grouse, quail, rabbit in New Castle countv, 

 ' ■" ■ i n. i. Birds and rabbits mav ije killed bv person on his 

 own land at any lime. Entrance upon land for shooting without 

 owner's consent, forbidden. Non-residents must become members 



btnining owner's 



lOln eoun- 



e prairies any part 



iheep." Traffic in 



use. snipe. 



Association, fee, Bo flrsl year, s.sj 

 jo. Churchman, Wilmington, Del. 



ula-.vful to kill wildfowl atnight, 

 u as is habit uallv raised at arm's 



of the Dels 



thereafter. 

 District of Co 

 or witn "ai 



length and fired from me snoi U eg 



Florida. No game law, 



Georgia.— Xo general law; local statutes in about thirty counties. 

 Law quoted applies In Thomas count \ and most of the others. 



Idaho.— Wildfowl and prairie chicken laws apply to Ada county 

 only. 



Illinois.— Unlawful to shoot wildfowl at night. 



Indiana. — importation of deer, "quail, pheasant, wild duck, 

 gt .us .. pi , orbidden. 



Iowa— Unlawful to kill for traffic prairie chicken, woodcock, 

 q ■ i 1 1 lasant; or for one p r.s m to kill in one day 



i" i ■ ■ ' : twenty-flve of either kind of birds named. Exportation of 



imel bidden. Game, birds (twelve of anvonekindliiiea' 

 toi 



prou 

 sho 



killed; 

 ;>d only 



l. 1 . E 



counties only. 



not be hunted v 

 tst snooting. Taxidermists 



missioned by the 

 ano hundred yards of fish- 

 Cor I u.dl tcked salmon. 

 1 tributaries, ami all waters in Ken- 



Kentucky. Law applies to certain 



Maine.— Moose, deer, caribou, may 

 Wildfowl lau does nut apply to seaco 

 may kid bird- f.u- scientine purposes 

 Governor. Au-.-ling for salmon within 

 way, dam or mill race, forbidden. Seas 

 trout, togue 



nebec county, may i to sept. lo. norma: 

 April it is lawfal far citizens t,togue, 



"and con.' , in. tin ir homes, but not otherwise." The Tom- 



nii si.jiaa <•( i.Taaie and Fisheries is Henry be eld, Ue. 



Maryland. Seasons given are those c - Local open 



seasons in several counties are as follows. Alleghany: deer Aug. I 

 to Jan. 1, pheasant .= ruffed grouse) Sept. 1 to Jan. 1. partridge 

 ( quail i <jet. IS to Jan. I. woodcock June 15 to Feb. 1, robin March" 1 

 to April I, wild tru'i;ev and rabbit Oct. IS to Jan 1. Anne Arundel: 

 rabbit. Oct. 1 to Feb. i, pheasant Oct. 15 to Jan. 1, partri 

 to Dec. 80, ortolan, sofa, rail bird Sept. 5 to Xov. f. Llal'a 



Jan. l. partridge Xov. 1 to Jan. 1. woodcock June 15 to Feb. 

 1. pheasant Sept. 1 to Jan. 1. rabbit Nu\\ 1 to Jan. 1. Caroline! 

 partridge Nov. 30 i I al: partridges and rabbits Nov. t to 



■ ■ 20, rdcoi '.'- June lb to Jan. 1, rail and pheasant Sept 10 to 

 Jan. 1. Frederick: pheasant: partridge Oct. 15 to Jan. 1. rabbit I lot. 

 1 to Feb. 1, Garrett : deer Oct, l. to Dec, 1 (use of dogs forbidden;. 



1. partridge 

 Aug. ' 



wild turkey Sep. 15 to Jan 1. pi 

 Nov. 1 to Jan, I. trout April 1 

 rabbit. Oct. 15 to Dee. 26, wood. 

 ant Sept. 10 to Jan. 10. Kent: f 

 1 to Jan. ]S. i 'il 

 cock June It) to Jan. l, pneo 

 to May 1. Prince George 

 May i. partridge Oct 19 t . Dee 



>rd: par 



idge 



Harf. 



o Jan. 1. rail and . 

 lent: partridge Nov. 1. to Jan. 15. rabbit Oct. 

 lery: paitridge Oct. 15 to Dec. 15, vvood- 

 • : Sept. 1 to Feb. 1 , robin Sept. 1 



a: rabbits Oct. 15 to Feb. 1, robin Sept. 1 to 

 ortolan, sora, rail bird Sept. 5 to 

 Jmon lish" Aug. 15 to Play 15. Queen Anne; 

 15, rabbits Oct. 1 to Jan. 15, robin Oct. 1 to 

 March!. Somerset: partridge Now l to Feb. l. St. Mary's: robin 

 Oct. l to March l. Talbot: robin Sept. 1 to May 1., rabbit and par- 

 tridge Oct. 15 to Jan. 1, woodcock. June 15 to Jan. 1. Washington: 

 woodcock June It) to Dec. 31, pheasant, bull-bat. night hawk, dove 

 Aug. 12 to Dee. 31, wild turkey Nov. 1 to March 1, part ridg 

 T - :. 1. V. ;. i :,:.-i , .id, :'— el. l to Jan. l. partridge Nov. i to 



Jan. 



Feb. 1. rabbit. Nov. 1 lu.bu 



ridge, 1 



Fo.;cs.— Uukuvf ul in Sotnersei . Washington, ' 



i - rol a fox pursued i !. % ■ 

 applies I..' . . . , ■ .,- water.-' north of li 



FomtLight west to Harford county, ul ornei 



of line ufiiui Ij'om Point Concord Ligut eJ: 



(1 Of first line shooting pei i 



o Jan. 1, ai 

 Friday and Saturday of each we 

 laws governing wildfowl shooting a 

 laws are published in full by I u ia -. '. 

 froteeti,. . a-.-, i Preservation .if name and 

 : . - Paul street & . re,Md 

 Massachusetts.— ilerrin_ juU, tern, 

 gull, Aug to Maj l. Wild pig 

 Quail and pne'rie chicken m..v be had in 



. ,.. t to May l w ial 

 black duck, teal. Use of ferrets t< .. 



..... 

 Ki h and Game Protective Associaiiou,00S vv 

 Michigan.--: applies to I 



Peninsula, Aug. 13 to Nov. 15. tor bidden i< 



: . kill in wat^r, ■■ 



teal, mallard and may ducks, S> pt. 1 to Jan 

 and night-shooting niilt'oul forbidden. W 

 vicinity (ie i ul sting, Exportation 



quad, prairie chicken, wild turke; i 



trout Iront i fee years . 



eateii grayling i > broo i troni of less than 1 1 

 fornia trout prior to June, 1835. Special law 

 The Slate soci.d r is the Michigan Sportsmen 

 i: rshou. Ka-.i .- - 

 Minnesota.- i >f game bird 



. . i .... i - i ...... . i 



:. vied i 



counties. Che secre 



ation is W. t* Timbe 



Missouri.— Unit 



fion from State. 



Montana.— Unit 

 deer, moo 



Nebraska.— Cu 



ington. J 1 . 



partridg. 

 uuckSept. lOto Jau. 1. 

 ight killing forbidden). 



'ieomieo and Worccslei 



n'lL.tby.vi s 



drav 



fn 



g i .. 



Turkey 

 luta 



alsi 



May I: use of guns, except such as are i 



shoulder, shooting front sailing orsb-am v.-s 



feery or maehinn, decoye 

 tance than ■: ■, shore (ea 



trap, unlawful. Black bass I 



lake and river. I'.e 

 ijan '. Uai.r.vful to kill 

 .. uni ' i:;'u. "rda- 

 iv.av. Sunday shooting forbidden 



l!v fired from the 



Dcepted localities), 



iter dis- 



. blind, net. 



game from Duchess county. Salmon c 

 May 1 to Octl. 



North Carolina.— Seasons for 



Iden. Forbidden to take 

 r it has been it el 

 bin. length, to take Uali- 

 iws govern certain waters. 

 - •■ ■ sociation, Secietary, 



:•:- : .pt pheasants) for- 

 nti . Nov. 15 to Dee. 15. 

 in Olmstead and Dodge 

 State Sportsmen's Associ- 



s to kill game for exporta- 



lake trout in Lake George, 



n'rds apply to counties of 

 ford, Rockingham, 

 irg, CabarraB. unlawful to 

 from counties of Catawba, 

 am. Orange. Iredell, Davie. 

 . me. Deer law ap- 



urrv. Yadkin. }:: 



Liu 



■ept 



tribn 



. TVildfo ■ 

 anyclavof week, u 

 ae shoulder," unlav 

 to gun applies als< 

 ries. Fh'.. b mting 

 also Craven, Hyde. Tyrrel 

 not be lawful for any i 

 any blinds, boxes, battel, 

 geese, or live ducks or gi 

 of said counties, for til 

 vided, That this section 



•■•} . 



market^ 



i- impair tt 

 lessee of marshes or 



such persons as sli 



purpose of killing or taking wildfowl; Pro- 



shallnot apiily to such non-residents who re- 



ound for the purpose ol shoting 



loot over or on land or marshes 



[t shall not be construed to limit. 



ain the consent or permission of such 

 their grounds for gaming purposes, 

 the State, or otherwise, 

 ful for one person to take in one season 

 'our caribou. Fle^h of moose must be 

 within ten days after killing: none later 

 • - tat U — ' "'" "" ' ! nts must 

 The seeretarv of the Game and Inland 

 is A. E. Harrington. Esq.. Halifax, N. S. 

 ner unlawful with "any other than a com- 

 jtected at all times. Season for wood 

 nged teal Sept. 1 to Jan 1. 



than Feb. 5. Pheasants prot 

 take out a license , [ 

 Fishery Protective Soc 



Ohio.-Wildfe.w 

 mon shoulder gun." Swan r 

 duck Sept. l'to April 1, blue-i ._ 



Ontario. — Mallard, giay, black, wood, summer and teal ducks, 

 Sept. 1 to Jan. 1. Battery, punt gun, sunken punt, night light, for- 

 bidden in wildfowl shooting. Imported game may not Be killed with- 

 out consent of landowner. It is forbidden to kill for exportation 

 "deer, elk, moi.se. reindeer or caribou." 



Oregon. -Persons may killgame trespassing on their lands, also 

 for their own consumption. Unlawful to kill elk or deer for horns, 

 hides or hams only. 



Pennsylvania.— Chasing deer with dogs unlawful. Use of fer- 

 rets unlawful. Wildfowl shooting unlawful with "other than such 

 -tins as bahitualiv are raised at arm's length and fired from the shoul- 

 Ifer;" netting unlawful. Grouse shooting at night unlawful. Wild 

 teoted on nesting groun I. Sunday shooting and Bshiitg 

 unlawful. Sf. ' ;'. i bass, vill.v.v bass, willow bass, rock 



bass, Lake Erie or grass bass, pike or pickerel, or wall-eyed pike, 

 commonly called Susquehanna salmon, June 1 to Jan. 1; does not 

 tpnly to 'Lak.- Erie waters, save ponds on Erie Harbor peuinsula. 

 -pec'kled or California trout may not he taken les= than 5in. in length, 

 nor black, vellow. green bass less than Oin. in length. Pike county: 

 deer Oct 1 to Dec. 1. cannot be killed in the water, squirrel Sept. l to 

 Dec 15. rabbit Oct. 15 to Dec. 15. wood or summer duck Oct. 1 to Jan. 

 I, woo b-oek July i to Dec. 15, quail Oct. 15 to Dee. 1, ruffed grouse 

 sept. 15 to Dec. 15. salmon, speckled trout May 1 to Aug. 1, pike, 

 pickerel June 1 to Feb. 15. 



Quebec. -Moose (afier Sept, 1.1SS3; Sept, 1 to Feb. 1: insectivorous 

 birds, Sept, 1 to March 1, non-residents required to pay $20 gun license. 

 Night shooting wildfowl unlawful. 



Rhode IsIand.-'Grouse or heath he 

 "swallow or box martin' Oof. 1 to May 1; 1 

 a-rass plover, Aug. 1 to April 1; wood. summ. 

 blue or green -winged teal. Sept. 1 to March 1. 

 unlawful. SneachPoudinOumberla: i except 



Tennessee.— Law quoted applies to e< 

 Giles, Maury, Davidson, Madison, Hamilton 

 iery and Cheatham counties, qua- 1, 

 March 1; woodcock, dove, turk 

 duck. Sept. 1 to M 



counties, turkey, quail, grousi 

 1. In Shelby count: 



." Nov. 1 to Jan. 1; 

 irtraru's sandpiper or 

 . black, dusky, duck, 

 is of ferret or weasel 



i from black bass law. 

 aties of Henry, Ijyer. 

 Bedford, Wds 

 , rouse, lark, Oct. IS to 

 y. Aug. 1 to March 1 ; snipe, plover, 

 rtaon, Davidson, Maury. Lincoln 





trie; 



nipe, lark, Sept. 1 to Feb. 

 :k. snipe, lark, 



Sept. 1 to Feb. 1; quail, Oct. 1 to April 1. Reel foot Lake: ' Non- 

 residents of Obion and Lake counties forbidden to kill wikltow 1 for 



profit: i 



(all gar 

 Scott, 



fc» 



of State : 



; kill fo: 



idee 



Similar rest; 



lumbe land, Fentress, Morgan, 



White, Roane, Rhea. Bledsoe. 



Fayette, Rutherford and Tipton counties. 



a, on Oct. 1 to April!. 



Texas.- Law applies certain counties only. Deer law- applies 



females only. 



Lftah.— .mported quail protected to 1SS5, The society is the 

 Utah Game and Fish Protective Society. Secretary, L. S. Hill, Rail 

 Lake City, Utah. 



' " Pi 



.t all times to kill buffalo, moose, elk, 

 antelope for hides only, 

 eer wiiu dug, forbidden in Burt, Wash- 

 _ _s, Saunders and Dodge counties. Unlaw- 

 ful for common carriers to transport game at any time. " Use of punt 

 gun unlaw ful, 



Nevada.— Sand-hill crane, plover, vellow hammer, bittern, Sept. 

 I to April l. Prairie chicken and sbarp-t . ,.i- asons apply 



to Humjioldt, Elko, Eureka and Lander: . m in same 



counties Aug. 10 to Mar, 18, Prairie chicken and - 

 in Esmeralda. Douglas, nrmsby, Lyon, .-lore-.-. Ohurehill a I I IVashoi 

 : o sjept, l, I8i3. 

 New Brunswick.— For non-resident law see Nova Scotia. 

 New Hampshire. -V eHow-legs. saudpipei-s, Aug. 1 to Feb. 1, 

 raccoon or coon. Sept. 1 to Jau. 1. Lake trout may be token "with 

 single book and line only," Jan. 1 to April I. Fish into 

 Cominissio u tedfoi 5 roars. Fish and Game d 



etS! Ed. Spalding, Nashua; Lulher Hayes, iVliltou; A. H. Powers, 

 Grant bam. 



New J ersey .— Marsh hen Aug. '25 to Dec. 1. summer duck Sept. 



i to Jan I. , . . a license. New Jersey JFlsh 



ii-oiieiive Socii State. Fee, 



, . Wm. L. Force, Plamfieid, N. J. Or, non-residents to 



shoot or lisli in Oamden. Gloucester, Atlantic. Salem, Cum 



and 



Jersey Game' Plot ecu lee, S5 tirst year. Si annually 



thereafter, '-'eefet.iry, Wm. T. Miller, n.W : Marl; I len.N.J, 



New Mexico.— "Trout. '' "speckled trout, " May lto Dec. 1. Pro- 

 visions respecting large gam., shall not be applicable to persons in 

 onipel to kill one ur two anion 



New York.— ITnla •.-.-- deer with dogs ' 



Vermont. —In Lak 

 Virerinia.— L: 



C -tream. ns 



Washington— Li 



bia counties. Klsh lav 



W 



PPh 



tin 



syl shooti 



1 tributaries, within ten miles 



with liook and line at any 

 ise unlawful. 



s to "Walla Walla and Colum- 

 o Columbia River. One per- 

 raffed or pinnated grouse in 

 tic iu hides and horns. 

 g forbidden with "other than 



'othei 



Wisconsin.— Woodauek, mallard and teal, Aug.: 

 Chasing deer with d. >gs unlawful: al-. ■ " iMfoy. | shootin: 

 than a gun habitually raised at arm's length and discharged from 

 the shoulder," orbyllo.it. sne :bo . a il or steamboat. Unlawful 

 to kill deer in Door comity for export or for hide. Grouse, quail in 

 St. Croix county Oct. 1 to Nov. 15. Unlawful to export trout from 

 Monroe counly 



Wyoming.— Gtvonshank, tattler, godwit. avocet, Aug. 15 to Apr. 

 1. Traffic in hides ei" a/aine forbidden. Unlawful so kill ■ 



■ as food. One person may not kill more than 

 one species of gamebirds iu one day. 



Florida Summer Shooting. — Pensacola, Florida, July 

 11. — Editor Forest and Streani- I think that you must have 

 some "graclge" against Florida. In your Witt- of June 29 

 you slate that deer, quail and other game are just now in 

 season in Florida, Nov?, I do not think that you would de- 

 liberately stale something of this kind uni s S you had some 

 authority for so doing, but on this occasion your informant 

 was wrong". Deer and other game are only shot here by 

 sportsmen t'nmi Oetulier until February. Of course there 

 are "pot-hunters" who shoot game all "of the year in this 

 Slate, just as much as in any others. It is true that the 

 Legislature in this State abolished the game law, but while 

 it was in force it was very strictly enforced in this (Escam- 

 bia) county. — H. T. [ We do not quite catch the drift of our 

 correspondent's remarks. We said that Florida hud no game 

 law: lie says so too. We said that game was killed in that 

 State all the year around; he admits it. Our informants are 

 all right. The fault we have to find with Florida is that the 

 State is 500 years behindhand in the matter of prop 

 protection. ' We speak from our own personal observation. 

 El period pf. eighteen years. We are glad to 

 know that the law was enforced in Escambia county; and 

 we hope Thai H. T, will evert all his influence to restrict in 

 his in ighborhood the shooting of game in itsbreediB 



Ttte Goi.dex Gun C'i. in.- Golden Col.. July 4, 1882.— 

 Phe Golden Gun Club was re- 

 cently organized with the following oflicers: President, 

 Frank E. Everett: First Vice-President. John MaeLachlan: 

 Second Vice-President, E. J. Thompson; Secretary, E. J. 

 „- Ullrich; Treasurer, James A. McGee: Field Captain. W, R, 



" iv: u!,laWIult " kU H T ivintrstrrn Uver-itttve Commilre,- W P TiViniristrm T 



fawn m spot tee ,, m 01 ' crusting. L ,; i^ '' -- 1,jU • ^ LXLC ^ U 1 Y L Jr ommiU !±L .)' ' J '; i|'\ JngStOD, J. 



ol ferrets forbidden. Wildfowl: Season in Long Island waters uct, lto I W. Barnes, Geo. Ball, Torrence White.— L. T. I. 



THE MAN WHO BEGAN THE WAR. 



I BELIEVE I had something to do with stirring up the 

 grouse controversy that has been going on in your paper 

 for several months, though it has assumed many phases, and 

 indeed all phases since ft began. I therefore 'desire to he 

 heard in rejoinder on some of the points. I claim to be a 

 sportsman in the fullest and broadest sense of the term, and 

 can kill as many birds on the wing as most men. but I alwrn s 

 take grouse whenever 1 find them — rather prefer them on a 

 tree, next on the ground, and after that cm the wing as the 

 last resort. 



As to the extinction or diminution of grouse, I don't see 

 that there is any less abundance of them now than there 

 was twenty-five years ago, so far as our section of country 

 i i a'amed, except where the forest has been cleared awa] . 

 ■ire more some years in some localities than iu others, 

 just as domestic fowls are found. They are liable to be 

 id by disease produced from a variety of causes, like 

 the whole animal kingdom. 1 don't see that breech-loaders, 

 railroads, and all the modern appliances of civilization have 

 affected them in any way in the mountains of Virginia and 

 West Virginia. Any day from October to April a good bag 

 of tbem can be made by "driving or riding along ike turn- 

 pikes and public roads through this country. 



I suppose it is well known to every grouse hunter that oil 

 a good steady saddle horse, or in a vehicle, are the 1 

 modesofhnntinggrou.se. The birds will run. and not fly 

 from a horse, until pressed very closely. They are very fruel 

 of dusting themselves in the' road, and, in fact, when not 

 disturbed, my observation is that they rather prefer an open, 

 grassy, somewhat damp place, sutTOuuded by woods or a 

 dusty road, to stay in. to the thick brush or any other place. 

 My experience is that pointers or setters are of little use in 

 htiniing them, excepl to retrieve them. Owing to my per- 

 verted ('"?) taste. I suppose, I prefer the "yailer dorg" that 

 has learned to tree them, if not hunting on horseback; if 

 mounted, then T want no dog — except a retriever, Aslsaid 

 in a previous letter, the '■treeing dog" is like a poet — born 

 not made; and there are the fewest of them — real good ones. 

 I have never seen more than three in my life, the best one, u 

 pure foxhound. 



In our section of country, the greatest enemies these 

 splendid birds have are the hawks, large owls, foxes, an I 

 last, but not least, the destructive forest fires which oca C 

 nearly every spring and fall, The mountains where 

 make their home are grazed by large herds of cattle, durin c 

 the summer, and the owners of these ranges set tire to tli * 

 woods early in the spring, if it is diy ensugh to permit of 

 their burning, and this usually occurs about nesting time. 

 If it is a good season for burning the woods, it is apt to be 

 a bad season for grouse; and if a section escapes the spring 

 fire, it is apt to be burned in the fall, when many of the 

 grown birds perish at night in the flames. But in'spite of 

 all these difficulties there are a great many birds here, and I 

 know of no place on the continent where better grouse shoot- 

 ing can be had than in the mountains of Virginia and West 

 Virginia. But I advise the aesthetic sportsmen, who can't 

 find it in their conscience to "shoot 'cm settin'," not to come 

 this way, "because they will be shocked to see the way our 

 boys take all sorts of vulgar turns on them, and they will feel 

 bad at night when the count is made around the camp lire. 



Staunton, Ya. JACK. 



FRESH-WATER CLAMS. 



IX your issue of June. 1 I was both amused and interested on 

 reading the suggestions of a professor of a Western col- 

 lege, touching the edible qualities for the human family of 

 our common fresh-water clams. Hitherto my attention has 

 oiten been directed to the masses of denuded shells of these 

 clams, which are so frequently met on the shores of our 

 rivers as well as t lie borders of our lakes. The muskrais, 

 it must be inferred, are high livers on these mollusks, as 

 witnessed by these piles of shells on the shores of our waters, 

 as above stated. 



I observe that the professor is deeply interested in the 

 solution of the problem of the possible edible as well as 

 nutritious and delicate possibilities of the aforesaid clams as 

 a new and cheap regimen for the era in which we live, when. 

 beef and pork ha vie taken such an upward "hist" as to put 

 the man of humble means beyond their enjoyment. So the 

 professor, with that gravity and profundity of research 

 which often distinguish our educators, wants the Ichthyo- 

 phagous Club, at their next session, to employ the best 

 experts in the culinary art to settle this (to him) deeply inter- 

 esting question. 



Away back m the years, when I was just learning my 

 A B C's in the art. of duck shooting over wooden decoys in 

 the bays and indentations of that famous old river, St. Law- 

 rence, this clam quest ion bored into the head oj my com- 

 panion Bernard and m, sdf in this Wtflfi: As we were i . ^ 

 ing to our camp among the far-famed and now appreciated 

 "Thousand Isles" of The St. Lawrence, after a morning's 

 tear among the whistlers or winter ducks as we then called 

 them, when nearing the shore whereon our encampment and 

 tent were spread, we noticed in the shallow water myriads 

 of clams partially imbedded in the sand and mini", with 

 open, audacious mouths. Resting on his oars, Bernard ex- 

 claimed, ""Oh, what a sight! Why may we not get up a 

 new and toothsome dessert with wliich to crown our every- 

 day repast of ducks, brown and golden-legged plover, part 

 ridges, fish and the like?" 1 embraced the idea without 

 hesitation. 



The next rntestion that puzzled Bernard, was, how to 

 gather the clams, although the water was quite shallow and 

 transparent but nevertheless chilled by the advent of Octo- 

 ber, "Clear as mud," said I. Drawing my ramrod and re- 

 moving the wotiner, 1 leaned over tfati s ;.-.■. . and at every 

 jab at the open mouth of the bivalve with the small end of 

 i. the clam Would rlosewjth a sharp grip and was 

 lilted from his bed and with sudden jerk landed in the boat. 

 In a few minutes I had nearly a peck, and ashore we pushed 

 to cook our matitutinal meal. Bernard looked alter the 

 coffee, poiatoes, pork and duck fixings, while I applied 

 myself to the washing, opening and cooking the clams. 



information Ol the professor and expert, to be em- 

 ilie Icliliiyophagoi. I will explain my process, that 

 they may be saved the time and loss of "goodies" with which 

 our new dish: First, a careful pai -boiling, empty- 

 ing the liquid, Mien adding B quantity of milk, a litoi i 

 of butter, a pinch of pepper and salt each, an 

 ply of oyster crackers. 



; course ended. I brought forth my maiden 

 in this, to inc. new department of the culihai 

 Bernard's plate with a liberal supply of the Lo 

 really delicious mass to smell or gaze upon, I helped myself 

 m the same way, and after a little stirring and cooling and 



