Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved (1922) (14782807855)

Identifier: delawareeasterns00vall (find matches)

Title: Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved

Year: 1922 (1920s)

Authors: Vallandigham, Edward Noble

Subjects: Delaware -- Description and travel Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) -- Description and travel

Publisher: Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott company

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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y to falloverboard to get your dinner? The men of thePeninsula were taught from early boyhood toshoot straight and to ride fearlessly, as also tohandle rod and line, net and dipsy. An East-ern Shore youth at College returned to his pro-fessor of English axi essay on the Fox by JohnBurroughs, assigned for reading, with the drycomment that he thought he knew more than theauthor about foxes. His was probably no vainboast, for like many another such youth it hadbeen his wont to mount his horse at early morn-ing, whistle his hounds, ride alone to thenearest woodland, start a fox, and follow him,if need be, for a dozen or fifteen miles. Whenthe midday hour came he was sure of hospit-able entertainment at a neighbors house, andhe cared not how late his return ride fetchedhim home. The outdoor life, afloat or ashore,with boat and rod, or with gun in the wholesomeand sympathetic comradesliip of horse and dog,has been a tradition of many generations.Those pale folk who hold that hunters been 74

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