On the Eastern shore of Maryland, a buck will buy you maybe one oyster on the half shell, but back in the day, it was a good day’s pay, so when watermen played a betting game with a silver dollar, it meant something. As the story goes, a silver dollar was thrown overboard, and one at a time, the men’s dogs would dive into the water to retrieve it. The man who threw in the dollar got the first chance with his dog, and if the dog was successful,  he kept running his dog on the next person’s silver dollar until the dog failed. Richard A. Wolters, who recounts this story in his book, Duck Dogs, admitted that the thought the dog was a tale tale, or at best, a legend – until he, himself, saw it done in eight feet of water. The dogs that were part of this game? Chesapeake Bay Retrievers.

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