FOREST AND STREAM 
[May ii, 1907 
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The Passenger Pigeon 
by W. B. MERSHON 
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buffalo marked the plains—now both bird 
and animal have been forced out by the 
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periodicals devoted to bird life, and correspond¬ 
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IJ The whole is arranged and edited in a most 
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DUCKS AND TERRAPIN. 
Judge J. Upshur Dennis, of the supren 
bench, who has been ill nearly a year, sat 
his room at the Church home and infirmary c 
Monday afternoon and talked of things. H 
talk was light and pleasant and interesting, fj 
it related to the joys of living and the dish 
so agreeable to the palate, including terrapin ai 
duck. 
“Ducks are fine now, too. I could enjoy oi 
at this minute.” 
“Are you an epicure on ducks?” 
“I don’t profess to be an epicure, but I lent 
when a duck is good and when it is cook 
well. I like them done to a medium and n 
with the blood oozing out, as some alleg 
epicures want them. A blackhead should 
cooked sixteen minutes exactly, a bald. pi 
eighteen minutes, a redhead twenty-two mintiti 
and a canvasback twenty-four minutes. With 
wild duck—no matter what kind—you want soi 
celery and hominy cakes and a bottle of go 
old burgundy. Any man that wouldn’t like tl 
combination would be mighty hard to please, 
really think a bald pate or a redhead cold 
night is better than the hot duck. A bottle 
claret would go well with it.” 
“And terrapin?” he was asked, “do you like ’em 
“Well, rather. Terrapin is the acme of crc 
tion. and I think terrapin and not man was ma 
on the sixth day. The odd time was filled up 
making field mushrooms.” 
“What art the essentials for terrapin?” 
“Plenty of it. I like them served in the sh< 
but you can’t make them bad. I am an art 
on terrapin. They should have the merest si 
gestion of sherry and be seasoned with butt; 
pepper and salt. If thin, a good deal of ere 
should be put with them. , The best kind ; 
fresh caught mud terrapin.” 
“When is the best month to eat terrapin?” 
“Any time you can get them. After Nove 
her they lay up food, and get fat. They shoi 
be boiled until thoroughly done and then stew 
Celery and Maryland biscuit belong with the 
and champagne is the piece de resistance as 
beverage; but good old burgundy is all right 
any time. An old darkey, named Aaron Ll< 
down in my county on the eastern shore, u 
to have a song that appealed to me very mu 
It began this way: 
When the honeysuckle blooms and the dogwood’s wl 
Then the terrapin lays, and the red drums bite. 
Then the judge cut off a generous quid 
tobacco. “The hog,” he said, “is the. grea 1 
animal in the world. Every part .of him ha 
different flavor, and each flavor is better tl 
that of any other animal in the world.” 
“Better than a terrapin?” 
“I don’t call a terrapin an animal. The i 
rapin, as I explained, is a creation. But, 
return tO' the hog; all of him is good, from 
tail to his front feet. Chine is a great d 
but it doesn’t compare with jowl. Jowl ; 
turnip tops in the spring can be beat by c 
one thing and that is, a boiled hen turkey. I 
body but a Yankee or a heathen would roas 
hen turkey in the spring. Hen turkeys are 
before they lay and the flavor is deficit 
Properlv cooked and served, such a dish is 
for kings, and nations have gone to war for 
cause.”—Baltimore News. 
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