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States dumped along there annually, it is
rich as cream is rich.

The fish, fowl, oysters of Barra Tarra—
ah, the oysters! No oysters in the world
like these for flavor, size and sweetness.
They are so enormous in size that—but let
me illustrate their size by an anecdote of
the war. 7

A Yankee captain, hungry and worn out
hewing his way with his sword from Chi-
cago to the sea, as General Logan had put
it, sat down in a French restaurant in New
Orleans, and while waiting for a plate of
the famous Barra Tarra raw oysters, saw
that a French creole sitting at the same
little side table was turning over and over
with his fork a solitary and most tempting
oyster of enormous size, eyeing it ruefully.

“Why don’t you eat him?”

“By gar! I find him too big forme. You
like?”

“Certainly. Not too big for me. See
_ this!” and snatching the fork from the
Frenchman the oyster was gone at a gulp.