Show BEWARE OF SOFT SHELL CRABS peculiar parts to ilo regarded Hegar egar ded by those who ent eat them there is no danger in eating soft ft shelled crabs observed an epicure if they are fresh but they are poison it if they are not they should be well seasoned and an extra lot of popper put on them as a precaution especially if the weather is very hot fiot when they arc eaten eafen or if they are arc eaten shortly lefore before one retires it is the habit of many persons to eat soft shelled crabs at night time I 1 do not know but that they taste better then it is somewhat da dangerous ge rous to many to drink milk after eating in crabs milk seems to develop the colic that follows batin eating soft shelled crabs with some per persons another thing that should be remembered and that is that a sharp thunderstorm will kill soft crabs and even the hard shelled cr crabs abr at times unless the soft shelled crab had been cooked before the thunderstorm 1 I think the safer plan would be to decline to eat it under all other conditions condition q jhc thc there re is no danger in partaking of for I 1 do not think anyone would be criminal enough to cook a dead crab hard or soft shell the proper way to kill a crab is to throw him into a kettle of boiling water I 1 know that some people think this is cruel but it is no more cruel than to stab them with a needle or kill them with chloroform as I 1 have known some extra sensitive persons to do |