. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. 728 Canvas-Back and Terrapin. I 1 r ;. DIVING FOR CEL- ERY.—I. lakes. They follow the edge of the winter along the Atlantic coast, and the water they prefer to feed in is that in which ice is about to form or from which it has just disappeared. Nowhere are they so good for the table as in the Chesapeake. Elsewhere they are tough or fishy; but the great vegetable beds of its shallows, and the quantity of wild celery that they contain, impart to t
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. 728 Canvas-Back and Terrapin. I 1 r ;. DIVING FOR CEL- ERY.—I. lakes. They follow the edge of the winter along the Atlantic coast, and the water they prefer to feed in is that in which ice is about to form or from which it has just disappeared. Nowhere are they so good for the table as in the Chesapeake. Elsewhere they are tough or fishy; but the great vegetable beds of its shallows, and the quantity of wild celery that they contain, impart to their flesh its greatest delicacy and best flavor. In the matter of variety, they are known as canvas-backs, red-heads, bald-pates, black- heads and mallards. There are numbers of smaller ducks with arbitrary names depending apparently very much upon the locality and its peculiar ornithological bent. In the way of larger birds there a'"e swans and geese. Their numbers are inconceivable, but they are very wild and hard to approach. Both, for the table, are as fine in their way as any game bird that flies. There are various ways of shooting the ducks of the Chesapeake and its broad affluent, the Susquehanna. Gen- tlemen for the most part shoot from "blinds" and use decoys; while mar- ket gunners use the "sink-boat" or the "night ; "Blinds" are any sort of artificial concealment placed at an advantageous point upon the shore. They generally consist of a seat in a sort of box, or shelter, some four feet deep, and capable of containing three or four persons and a couple of dogs. They are thoroughly covered up with pine branches and young pine-trees and communicate with the shore by a path similarly sheltered. The water in front is com- paratively shallow, and, if it contain beds of wild celery on the bottom, is sure to be a feeding-ground for the ducks About thirty yards from the " blind " are anchored a fleet of pe
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