What will you and I have to amuse ourselves with, when there are no more birds on Takern?" THE DECOY-DUCK Sunday, April seventeenth.

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

I'm only a decoy-duck," that a grebe-nest came floating toward the shallows where he was tied.

"You are certainly too good to be a decoy-duck.

The little school-girl was a decoy-duck,that was all.

Hearts-ease was about sixteen, and they looked upon her as a promising decoy-duck, but she was "just the purest flower of the prairies," he said, and so they beat and starved her in consequence, for not falling in with their views.