Cobb's Island

DOUBTLESS many of your readers are now casting about them for a pleasant summer trip, and are anxious to find a place where good fishing and shooting can be had, and where a millionaire's pocketbook is not required to pay expenses. I have just returned from such a place -- Cobb's Island -- and have had most excellent sport.

On Friday last, with a friend, we shot over stools eighty grayback snipe, and would have killed more had we been in practice. This bird is now returning from the north, and within a week or ten days myriads of them will be found at the island mentioned. The fishing for weakfish or sea trout is superb, the writer and his friend having taken over 100 lbs. in one tide, and only desisted from very weariness. As an apology for catching so many, I would add that we fished for a boat's crew of thirteen persons. Any person going to Cobb's for fishing should take with him an ordinary rod and reel, with a fairly large braided silk line, as hand line fishing is an abomination, and does not afford half the sport a rod does.

As to the comforts of the hotel I cannot speak, as I did not live there, but the guests appeared fairly satisfied. The surf bathing is good, and any one fond of the labor of hauling sharks can have as much of that kind of sport as they want.

To reach Cobb's Island take the boat from Baltimore or Washington to Old Point; then the steamer Northampton to Cherryston, then by sailboat to destination.

COSMOPOLITAN.

WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21.