Year: 1867

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and flows as often as it wants to in
twenty-four hours, and he seems to
like it.


lie has curious and at tho same
time playful habit, at certain times, of
opening his shell and attracting to his
presence the hungry raccoon. On
such occasions the cuss Of q raccoon
surreptltiously inserts his paw into the
open shell, to haul the oyster out;
wbereupon the latter clamps down on
him like the devil and holds him there
! till the tide rises and browns him.


don't know what he does il for.
but have the authority of several
editions Of natural history-with COL
ored plates-for saying that such is
the fact. and also that no raccoon has
ever been known to survive this hy-
dropaJhic treatment.


The oyster must be of an extremely
social disposition. They sleep numer.
ously in one bed, and nobody ever
heard Of one kiclSin another out.
They are a quiet set, and, though they
often open their mouths they have
nothing TO say. A great many self
important politicians of the present
day are suffering with the same COM
plant. .....


Their religious principles are strk-
lngIy evident in the fact that they all
belong to the Hardshell persuasion,
and although strictly addicted to cold
water as a general thing, the princi-
pies or that creed arc often seen when
a dozen are found clustered around
tho neck Of an empty byttle winch
some mean white man has omptied
aud thrown overheard.


In his normal state the oyster is
quiet and anything but fussy, but
when brought into towns and cities. he
often gets INTO broil or a stew, and
although MCCool himself would be
unable to his eye the poor thing
suffers muchly from this getting INTO
hot water.


His temperance proclivities will
make him take even salt water whom
he can't get fresh, and his diet outside
of that .raceoon foible mentioned
above, is exceeding light


People eat oysters. Some are pre-
ferred in the live state and some in
the cooked They are dog-on'd good
both ways. The most approved and
highly satisfactory way of eating ar
oyster is TO do it after the shell has
been opened. / have known people to
fail signal!y who tried It the other
way.
Oysters flourish in all the months Of
the year ir which the lotter "r' occurs,
and the larger colonies of them are TO
be found on ST. Charles street, both
sides, from September once to the very
last day of April next There are oc-
easions when they my be found in large
communities at Barataria. These are
of a higher order, and THEN acquain-
tanco eagerly sought after by siuple
natives.


There are two ways of making an
oyster open unto you. Ons IS to
knock him like mischief with brick
until he can't help it, and the other is
to tickle him with thing like bowie
knife. The first named plan will al
way succeed, but the oyster doesn't
! like it, and the result is not satisiacUo-
ry to the man who does IT,


l triod the other process once, and
succeeded in taking off ono-half my
left thumb with the bowie.knife instru-
ment used for tickling, have not
tried it since. Notmany people know
how to do 1t, eXpertly.


| You then put pepper sauce on him,
if lemons are ten cents a piece, They
are both good if you like it.


Idont know how many oysters l
can eat ina givon time; e;but am willing,
after due notification, to try it for the
benefit of any unprecedented individual
who has a barrel or two on hand and
an expert to use the opening instru
ment.


In conclusion, the oyster is like a
clam, onlya little more that way. lie
can hold on tighter, is more hefty in
his genera. build and there ia more
diversity in his style of architecture.