Fox hunts.

Pigs and beech mast.

John B. Schurman: Yes I have known a man to shoot 30 pigeons at one shot. Wild Geese, Ducks, Brant, [paluzes?] and pigeons were plenty. Foxes & Rabits were also plenty and bears & wild cats. I knew a man to shoot 2 foxes at one shot.

William Sencabaugh: In old times thar were a thousand to one geese, pigeons, partrigs, game of all kinds.

Peter Sinott: Game was more plenty — no pigeons now but plenty 30 years ago & since.

[no name # 7]: Game was much more abundant. l have shot wild pigeons myself some thirty years ago.

[no name # 2]: Game was much more abundant then than now. Any amount of wild Pigeons. 66. Was any fox hunt ever held on the Island; when, and under whose

auspices?

George Brace: G. Coles, Captain Swabey and other Bucks followed the hounds at times.

John Brooks: I never heard of any organized fox hunt, but the people w0u|d hunt for [illegible] when they thought they could catch him.

Richard Hudson: I never heard of such a thing.

John B. Schurman: I never knew or heard of any.

Peter Sinott: I think Governor Huntley held a fox hunt.

67. To what extent did hogs exist on beachnuts 50 years ago? Was it difficult to catch them at the beginning of winter?

Alexander Anderson: Hogs lived chiefly on Beechnuts in the autumn, and it was often difficult to catch them.

Char/es Anderson and Robert Anderson: They lived entirely on beach nuts and came home fat in the months of Jan. Feb. and March. We caught them with dogs and often had to shoot them.

George Brace: Don’t know.

John Brooks: Beach nut pork was very common but soft and unpalatable, sometimes the pigs could not be got home before the middle of winter, and sometimes not at all, but they died in the woods.

Richard Hudson: Hogs have been fatted by hundreds, perhaps by thousands on beech nuts, the Pork is very soft and not generally appreciated, and they were generally suffered to run until a good coat of snow covered the ground. They became wild and very difficult to manage.

William Jenkins: In my time they often fattened solely on Beechnuts.

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