Chapter II: Part I: Florida

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CHAPTER I.--Florida.--The Inland Passage 9

CHAPTER II.--In Florida 59

CHAPTER III.--Currituck Marshes 116

PART II.--THE GAME WATER-BIRDS.

CHAPTER I.--Game of Ancient and Modern Days.--Its Protection and Importance.--The proper Shooting Seasons.--The Impolicy of Using Batteries and Pivot-Guns 139

CHAPTER II.--Guns and Gunnery.--Breech-loaders compared with Muzzle-loaders.--All the Late Improvements in Breech-loaders.--Hammerless Guns 159

CHAPTER III.--Bay-snipe Shooting.--The Birds, their Habits, Peculiarities, and places of Resort.--Stools and Whistles.--Dress and Implements appropriate to their pursuit.--Their Names and Mode of Capture 185

CHAPTER IV.--The New Jersey Coast.--Jersey Girls and their pleasant ways.--The peculiarities of Bay-snipe further elucidated.--Mosquitoes rampant.--Good Shooting and “Fancy” Sport.--Shipwrecks and Ghosts 219

CHAPTER V.--Bay-Birds.--Particular Descriptions and Scientific Characteristics.--A Complete Account of each Variety 261

CHAPTER VI.--Montauk Point.--American Golden Plover or Frost-Bird.--A True Story of Three Thousand in a Flock.--Lester’s Tavern.--Good Eating, Fine Fishing, and Splendid Shooting.--The Nepeague Beach 301

CHAPTER VII.--Rail and Rail-Shooting.--Seasons, Localities, and Incidents of Sport.--Use of Breech-loader or Muzzle-loader.--Equipment 313

CHAPTER VIII.--Wild-Fowl Shooting.--General Directions, from Boats, Blinds, or Batteries.--Retrievers from Baltimore and Newfoundland.--Western Sport.--Equipment 328

CHAPTER IX.--Duck-Shooting on the Inland Lakes.--The Club House.--Practical Views of Practical Men.--Moral Tales.--A Day’s Fishing.--The Closing Scenes 344

CHAPTER X.--Suggestions to Sportsmen.--A Definition of the Term.--Crack Shots.--The Art of Shooting.--The Art of not Shooting 398

CHAPTER XI.--Directions for Building a Battery 415

FLORIDA.