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>From Glen-Cove the Petrel made a reach across the Sound to Sachem's-Head, where Mr. Stryker enjoyed to perfection the luxuries of clam-soup, lobster-salad, and chowder. Their next port was Nantucket. They happened to arrive there just before a thunder-shower, and Charlie Hubbard was much struck with the wild, desolate look of the island.
Hugh, one could fancy clam-soup just now, eh!" "Clam-soup, sir, well made, is one of the most delicious soups in the world. If the cooks of Paris could get hold of the dish, it would set them up for a whole season." "What is 'crême de Bavière, and all such nick-nacks, boy, to a good plateful of clam-soup? Well made, as you say made as a cook of Jennings used to make it, thirty years since.
Did I ever mention that fellow's soup to you before, Hugh?" "Often, sir. I have tasted very excellent clam-soup, however, that he never saw. Of course you mean soup just flavoured by the little hard-clam none of your vulgar potage
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