" "Then you're in the employ of the great North American Trading and Transportation Company?" Nicholas gave that funny little duck of the head that meant yes.

If my memry serves me correctly, FISKE and GOOLD made you perambulate off on your eyebrows, last fall, and while the a-4-said Tigers walked off with the seats of your trowserloons in their teeth, you all jined in the follerin' him: Wall Street is all a fleetin' sho', From which lame ducks are driven, "Up in a balloon they allers go, To Tophet, not to Heaven.

Up in the cabin No-Thumb-Jack had pulled out of the usual capacious pockets of the miner's brown-duck-pockets that fasten with a patent snapa tattered pocket-book, fat with bills.

Should a tame duck's duckling get into mortal trouble, its mother will just signify her sorrow by an extra "quack," or so, and a flapping of her wings; but touch a wild duck's little one if you dare!

The human beings had only saved him that they might use him as a decoy-duck.

The ducks cane back; the story of ducks unlimited.

Now, as we worked, I glanced occasionally towards Jessop, and saw that he stitched a band of the light duck around each end of the framework which he had made, and these bands I judged to be about four feet wide, in this wise leaving an open space between the two, so that now the thing looked something like to a Punchinello show, only that the opening was in the wrong place, and there was too much of it.

INGREDIENTS.The remains of cold roast wild duck, 1 pint of good brown gravy, 2 tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, 1 glass of claret, salt, cayenne, and mixed spices to taste; 1 tablespoonful of lemon or Seville orange-juice.

Venison broiled to a turn, juicy, succulent mallard ducks from the cold storage of their larder, mashed potatoes with gravy, young boiled onions from Whoop-Up, home-made rubaboo of delicious flavor, hot biscuits and wild-strawberry jam!

Sweet duck, a little help me.

This day we killed three buffaloes, two antelopes, two raccoons, and three teal ducks.

A fat duck comes not amiss; and impelled by hunger he hesitates not to attack man.

There was a quick wave of a hand, then with the speed of a frightened wild duck, the plane shot away, came round in a finely banked curve, and disappeared in a south-easterly direction.

"It be known to thee, O Tantlatch, that the wild goose and the swan and the little ringed duck be born here in the low-lying lands.

"Pardon me!but I think not," said Bellew, shaking his head, "you see, I amerrather extravagant in my eating,eggs, you know, lots of 'em, and ham, and beef, ander(a duck quacked loudly from the vicinity of a neighbouring pond),certainly,an occasional duck!

Gray duck appeared in the rapids. 17th.

" "Then you're in the employ of the great North American Trading and Transportation Company?" Nicholas gave that funny little duck of the head that meant yes.

MCEVOY, J. P. Denny and the dumb duck.

But he's a queer duck.

There are some curious varieties of the domestic duck, which only appear interesting from their singularity, for there does not seem to be anything of use or value in the unusual characteristics which distinguish them; thus, the bow-bill duck, as shown in the engraving, called by some writers the hook-bill, is remarkable for the peculiarly strange distortion of its beak, and the tuft on the top of its head.

SEE Birdsall, Lawrence E. BIRDSALL, LAWRENCE E. The ductile duck.

And I hear the English are making ships that will dive the same as diving ducks under the water.

"It may be a light ship, under her top-gallant and studding-sails, or it may be, that we see only the lofty duck of some heavier vessel, Captain Ludlow;ha!

War clubs and lances presented almost every imaginable device of paint; but by far the most elaborate thing was their pipes of red stone, curiously carved, and having flat wooden handles of some four feet in length, ornamented with the scalps of the red-headed woodpecker and male duck, and tail feathers of birds artificially attached by strings and quill work, so as to hang in the figure of a quadrant.

Indeed, compared with the notes of the English lark, his are like the vehement ejaculations of a maternal duck in distress.