THE AYLESBURY DUCK.The white Aylesbury duck is, and deservedly, a universal favourite.

[Footnote 8: Plainly a favourite with the king.

But in view of the fact that he made no overtures to a passing hansom, which swerved in to the curb in response to a signal of Lanyard's cane, this last concluded that the prince was up to his reputedly favourite game of waylaying his rebel wife.

Pau was a specially favourite resort.