The muscovy ducks were very good eating.

"My dog is good to catch a hen, A duck and goose is vood vor men; And where good company I spy, Oh, thether gwoes my dog and I. "Droo aal the world, owld Gaarge would bwoast, Commend me to merry owld England mwoast; While vools gwoes scramblin' vur and nigh, We bides at whoam, my dog and I.

Madam Duck of this farm is my mother.

Sometimes the "stock" ducks are the cottager's own property, but it more frequently happens that they are intrusted to his care by a wholesale breeder, who pays him so much per score for all ducklings properly raised.

"You know that slim little duck that got in last night, purtendin' he's a shoe-drummer?

The muscovy duck is a distinct species which has been domesticated elsewhere and introduced.

"Now, Mrs. Todd," said I, "the ducks I require are not fat ducks, but meaty ones; the last I had from you had nothing on them when they came to table, though they looked so plump when you sent them.

But it has not been domesticated: the tame ducks in India, as here, are all mallards.

The duck is a native of Britain, but is found on the margins of most of the European lakes.

"Well done, Ted, that duck was twins," cried his father, laughing, almost as excited as the boy himself, and they ran to pick up the birds.

These Sidney "ducks" were English convicts from Australia, and other thieves and robbers joined them as agreeable companion, making a large class that seemed to glory in destruction and a chance for booty.

A duck, Evadne, is a bird which requires very careful treatment in its preparation for the table.

Ibsen happened to possess that genius, and I am not far from agreeing with those who hold The Wild Duck to be his greatest work.

"My dog is good to catch a hen, A duck and goose is vood vor men; And where good company I spy, Oh, thether gwoes my dog and I. "Droo aal the world, owld Gaarge would bwoast, Commend me to merry owld England mwoast; While vools gwoes scramblin' vur and nigh, We bides at whoam, my dog and I.

From the extent of these establishments we inferred that ducks were the favorite article of food at Manila, and the consumption of them must be immense.

DUCK'S EGGS.The ancient notion that ducks whose beaks have a tendency to curve upwards, are better layers than those whose beaks do not thus point, is, we need hardly say, simply absurd: all ducks are good layers, if they are carefully fed and tended.

The ducks and hens of this country are twice the size of ours.

She grew plump and chirpy, and bustling as a blithe little sparrow, though perhaps duck would be a happier comparison, for she was dabbling and splashing in water all the day long, making the stairs and porches of her curatorship fairly glisten with cleanliness.

Except these, and some ducks swimming near us, with seven pelicans flying along on the other side of the river, there was no sign of life within the range of my sight.