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PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 17, '1009
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After Shooting the
Wild Duck Gonies the.
, Art of Cooking It
Y'N THE-papers, not long since, there
...4- A , appeared one of those little one-para-.graph
dispatches, dated Norfolk,
Va.K which the news editors use to' embalm
fugitive facts of inconsiderable importance
'Veorle Gould," it said, "has
bought Cedar island, C L. Shaver, of
Fairmont, WSVa., who acted as the per
sonal representative of the , millionaire,
states that the island is among - the . best
grounds in this section for . canvasback
duck.'U ' ' , - .
5o; w thc flight ... o A rartf . ai ;
prized canvasback begins this fall--and it .
v under way now "a little north of the new ;
island : consecrated1, to millionaire fame?
- one at least of our, abused wealthy class
may feel assured that he will get. enough
canvasbacks to ward oft recurring hunger.
- There are plenty of other millionaires
and near-millionaires who have staked out
their private duck-shooting grounds, -.with
every prospect that -a - few wore years will
see every tract in the East that is susceptible
of preservation bearing "No Trespassing
signs. .' - '. ; .v: , -
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What, then, is to become of the sport
which most thrillingly of all stirs the blood
in the chill of, autumn and the bitter cold
; of winter; and how many of the diminishing
, flocks wilt remain to let the eager democ
; racy of the land learn the, delicious flavor
of the wild fowl that best of all tickled the
palates of their sharpshooting forefathers?
Perhaps this "preserving", of the game
. may work out as a genuine salvation from
the now ubiauitous pot-hunter. At any ratef
the happy time is still with us when he who
has a taste for game and but a moderate
purse can a ford to enjoy y some samples
of the table delicacy that is supreme above -all
the rest.
w
you're' tired -of .turkey, eren of ,
turkey with walnut Huffing, the first,
thing: that. pops into the mind ia tba
Well, that's mighty good, especially if you
happen to have inherited a few drops of Ger
man blood and can appreciate the German
. Huffing: a quart of boiled chestnut meats,
worked up with a little parsley, My a teaspoon- ,
ful. and half as much ODion, salt and pepper, ,
t and a tablepoonful of butter, all v bound to-
retbr with an egg. - . - t -
Eut there was a Christmas rnnu that took
a prire some years ago in one of the "women's
tcsgaziDes, in whioh the.riTrs de .rcsi stance
were wild iiiirk, that proved one. of the, roost '
atUfring dinners, any cne coul l ak.
. The veriest amateur anyrg f picurrs wCl at -'
a wild duck beyond a tame goose Any day of the
: week, and he needn't wait till Christmas, either.:
But it is only the practical gourmet who
realises how often the average housewife pays
more than she ear afford properly for some-
thing that doesn't taste. aa good as it ought -The
wild duck will neve betray either your
. purs or your palate. , , -
For one thinjrrit is hard to find a finely
flavored a bird as the common blackhead. Ewnl
in seasons of great demand th prie rarely
rises above $1.50 a pair; usually it is no more
than-tl. Hearty'' appetites are doing well if
two of ihm'n Tnsfisg one blackhead, far thf
bird, plucked and drawn.-will weigh from'oaa
to orx and a half rurHs, ) meat.
. Whrn the diTinr of wild d jit is dene,' it is
deme, whidi is one of the blessings oVcied tha'-
hig turkey, whose dry( remnants hang over into
the middle of next week. You can buy to fit
only two people or to lit " a doreu, aomething
that applies to "Very few other main dishes..
If your purse be heavier, the unapproachable
ruddy duck, formerly Rubbed tho pintail and
sold at 40 cents per. pair, can be had for $1.75
or (2 jver pair, with the assurance that the rule
of service ought to be one bird for one person
but such a bird, all meat and delicacy! -'
. Pass to the noble mallard, and you may get
a pair for $2 or $2.50, with a fairly shrewd
carver able to satisfy half a dozen persona who ,
are not habitual gourmands. The redhead,
which- has become the successor to the canvas
back - in these times of growing scarcity, will
sell between $3 and $i a pair and go about as
far as the mallard.
'As for king canvasback himself, in the full
grandeur of his six or seven pounds weight per
pair. $1 a pound is nowadays1 no more than a
fair price for hm. buy him nhere you. will in
the big, cities of the Kast. , .' "
, - - Now. these prWs, whwh aend a fscp of ,
chilly aire intu the throat of the average house
wife, actually amount to no more than from 40 '
cntt to tl per pound, and that at'the stalls and
iora 'of the game d W who make it their -rsV
to collect a 11' the pmf.t the traffic will bear!
Put the lover cf gxd living who will give a
few . hours . t market 'buntirc, with orJy his
pock etbook for wrann, will trrk down ia .
almost -axy tig-city .hunters -an i dealers wb .
- are as ready to sell to him as to the pampered
"game purveyors"; and he will be astonished to
find at what a reduction on the nominal market
rates he can buy his ducks, especially if he be
content to disregard the lauded canvasback en
tirely and trust to his own teeth and palate for
the ouality of his fare.
alany a superb ruddy has been bousht in a
city as far north as Philadelphia for 25 cents,
and plenty of blackheads at 75 cents per pair.
A gluttonous and sordid view,, this. to. take
of the divine sport of duck shooting! Nonsense.
It is simply the fundamental spirit of the true
sportsman, based on a principle which, if tht
' majority of the men who can afford to be
sportsmen today were to adhere to it. would
keep game alive to let us all go gunning asd
find birds enough. - ' -
The man who buys for his own incisors is
the most merciful of all who contribute to the
extermination of the duvk species. He is kin to
that Saint Hubert among gunners who, having
killed only the birds be needs for his own use
lays aside his weapon and lets the rest fly on.
Any state that can furnish more than twenty
surh decent sportsmen, from' among its rtgi- .
menu of gunners whose sol ambition is to '
make a hag should be' exalted, in America, as
the. breeding place-of the orJy kind of gentle-'
men ho are not game hogs." . ; ;
For there is a lnt of slaughter, when the
birds' cro.tJgh which ia to.be compared only ,
to the lujt af gold as it flames- at sight of pay
dirt m a prospectors pan. He is tho noblo ex .
ccption who can keep his. itchiutf finger from .
. the trigger when -his sober reason tells him ha' .
can never eat all he ia killing. -z - '
"Oh. cee!"' he mutters to his annoying coa '
science, "Brother Jim'U take a bunch."
And, as conscience . begins to yell that
Brother Jim will perish of indication, the aver
ntrc gunner remembers Uncle William, aud then
all his poor relations, and then, if the supply of
ducks holds out, the rest of the population of his
nati ve town. - .... : ; . -
" The buyer and preserver of an island whera
the birds make a regular stop in the'r southern
flight such a man as George -Gould - mar kill,
his hundreds with the help of invited friends
during. a week's stay at his expenive privata
hunting ground, and yet not accomplish cne
half the permanent destruction -attending tfca
expeditions of a few average city iportmf n.
He has paid too high fcr a preserve whi'h ha
hopes will always furnish him sport to rum it
in a few years by overshooting. .
' " In spite of all the lauhte-s of the gur.r.-rs
to whom a day, or two .n ths fiaU i a nc
mpct w expensive "that tl-y sr.t k ill "1
. tbe-y'cstt-for thir'taoD'-v, i e f rn .-..;
has its deirabki groui.c's as fr c rib . I
negat. in New Jf rsey.
And the Ut1. th Zist of t-Tr -o C;. -2
thre risrt no.
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