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Identifier: outing58newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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of thecrustacean. There were reefs of oystersalong the coast. Oyster bars guarded themouths of the rivers and great bunchesof the bivalves clung like fruit to thebranches of the trees. Beneath us wasone vast clam bed, and dropping our an-chor we drove poles in the mud downwhich we climbed and to which weclung with one hand while diggingclams out of the mud with the other.We gathered a hundred or more, asmany as the most sanguine of us be-lieved we could eat. They ranged insize from that of the little neck of NewYork to giant quahaugs, of which singlespecimens weighed over five pounds. Our anchorage that night was besidethe little pelican key that separates themouths of Broad and Rodgers rivers,and we roasted clams on the beach be-side the latter. It was the toss of acopper which stream we should fish inthe morning. Their sources and mouthswere the same in each case and a creekunited their middles like the band ofthe Siamese twins. We chose RodgersRiver because of its beauty, the great
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