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Show PUTS WINGS ON OYSTERS c Prof. McSorley of Seaford, L. I., Crosses Them With Flying Fish. "Well, I guess I've got the scientists of the world ready to come to me for kindergarten instruction again," said Prof. Aloysius Darwin Huxley Columbus Colum-bus McSorley of Seaford, L. I., when he dropped into town today for his regular weekly visit to Broadway, says a New York correspondent of the Boston Bos-ton Herald. "Before the end of the week they'll have a dozen cigars, a new automobile, a couple of aeroplanes and a combined com-bined breakfast food and furniture polish named after me. "This week I've finished a job that I think is worth while. I ain't going to give any exhibition of my latest hybrid, but, take it from me, it out-hybrids out-hybrids anything in the hybridology line that ever was hybrided. ' That's going some, too, for my barking dogfish dog-fish that used to catch channel cats was pretty near perfection and my collapsible mule was the wonder of the age for a time. "You see, this latest thing in hybridology hybrid-ology is the result of my getting the rheumatics last fell digging clams. I found this year that I wasn't as 6pry as I used to be and couldn't dig more than a ton or so of soft shells before noon, and when I started to rake oysters in the afternoon I felt tucK-ered tucK-ered out. That got me thinking. "I know that that twin of a google eyed jelly fish who calls himself Prof. Schneider of Goose Creek woujrj hear about this, and I began thinking how to have tt laugh on him. Before next spring I can have my oysters gathered at daylight without getting out of bed. "I just went out and sailed the skiff toward Barnegat until I run into a school of flying fish. I netted the best looking ones and brought them home. It only took a couple of days for us to get acquainted, and then, when they got friendly like, I let them play around the front yard with my pet oysters until they got used to them. After a while I set some of the eggs in my incubator with oyster seed. "That was only the first stage. The flying fish, when hatched, looked a little lit-tle like oysters and the oysters a little like flying fish. Then when these laid eggs and I hatched them they looked more alike than ever. "Now I've got my flying oysters perfect. per-fect. When I want a mess of the best blue points all I've got to do is to ring a bell and the jump out of the oyster bed, sail right into the bin and wait to be opened. "I'm going to try to cross a sword-fish sword-fish into the breed next year and make them self-opening, but I've been too busy frost fishing lately to work this scheme out to the best advantage." |