The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-06-25


iR e WALL Here we fortified the
.er-mau with a pot of hot coffee |
and hearty breakfast, for these trips |
always give a man a good appetite.
Soon after sunrise the wind sprung up
again, a@d we run Slong slowly until
the oyster beds were reached fifteen
miles farther south. Previous to our
last gale it was no trouble to geta boat
load of oysters. Run everywhere until
.yoa struck on oyster bed, cast anchor,
get'Omerboard and I'll up was the rule.
"A year ago the past winter we filed
Oarbe&t, in less tkan half day, with
ssffine oysters as we ever wish to see.
Now, however, it is difficult matter,
and "a matter of more time to get a
load. The gale of last September
withthe vast amount of rain that fell,
flooded the river with such an amount
of fresh water, that most of the oys-
ters were destroyed, and it is only in
one or two localities that they can be
obtained.
Atter dinner we proceeded to load
up-racher hard work, as the oys-
ters haze to be called closely. Half
an-hour by sun we had on half load,
when We raised sail and proceeded to
Taylor creek, four miles off, where we
proposed to pass the night Our
quarters was house ON high sand
hill, very cool and pleasant, with no
mosquitoes or sand,fiies to disturb
cur repose- The consequence was, we
Sept like top, andat daybreak next
morning we were ready for our days
waa,.l, Iess>s.sfsis..sA-- -sgysee. sslen4 soil
back to the oyster beds, and icnfc:kt,
click, click, again cullmg oysters. At
10 o'clock we pronounced the boat
loaded, with from thirtV-fve to forty
bushels of oysters. A fair wind
again to watt us up the riyer-no time
to lose, SO up sail and we move off.
All went we'll until we reach ed The
Hole in the WALL" barring a good
wetting from passing shower. Here,
however, our troubles commence in
real earnest. The river is low, terri.
BILE low, as we soon found, when
scrape, scrape, and we fetched up
fast aground on an oyster bar Af
ter polling with no effect, overheard
we went and pushed her over, only |
to run on another in less than half an
mile, when we had to back out and |
find deeper water to float us over. |
This, of course, consumed time, for !
even when under way, we had to |
necessarily run slow, so as not to run
on the bar two hard. When good |
deep water was reached at Duck
Point, five miles north of "The Hole
in the WALL" the sun was low in the
western sky, but we had a fine wind,
so fixing ourselves as comfortable as
possible, we prepared ourselves for a
nights run. AS we could not sleep,
we relieved each other at the tiller,
and settled all little political Difficult
ties, both national and local, in way
that was entirely satisfactory to both
of us, and, we presume to large ma
iority of our fellow citizens, for if we
remember rightly, the Major had
peace and prosperity reigning over
every portion of our land, and every
man who was the head of family
want 100000 in clear cash, and that
ought to satisfy most of us.
Directly after moonlight we took
the lookout, and decided that we
were four miles from home. Hugging |
the west shore more closely we found
we were correct, and at just 1:3O,
we dropped anchor at the Majors, |