And they used to make piratical expeditions down to Lynn in eight oars, to attack bargemen, and fen girls, and shoot ducks, and sleep under turf-stacks, and come home when they had drank all the public-house taps dry.

There was no time for him to call on Morgianna and explain why he had not brought her the ducks, for soon after his arrival the ship departed for Halifax, where the commander had to give an account of his conduct at Baltimore.

And he saw a little duck, And shot it through the head, head, head.

" "Me leave St. Michael; me got ducks, reindeer meatoh, plenty kow-kow!

He sat by us when we played duck-on-the-rock.

Season and roast the duck; then cut into pieces for serving.

She said there were men who wore coats the color of dead grass, and drove in rigs that rattled and had dogs with them, and they killed ducks and geese that were away up in the air.

Clean and cut the duck into pieces and season with salt and pepper; then cut 1/2 pound of bacon into dice pieces and put in a large saucepan with 1 onion and 2 carrots.

Heat 2 tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan; add the ducks, 1 large onion chopped fine, 2 cloves of garlic and 1 herb bouquet chopped.

My idea was to compel all the towns round about, near the bar, to raise ducks, and you'll see how they, all by themselves, will deepen the channel by fishing for the snailsno more and no less, no more and no less!" Here Don Custodio extended his arms and gazed triumphantly at the stupefaction of his hearersto none of them had occurred such an original idea.

I think I could eat some salted duck.

He knows how to create the right Chelsea atmosphere and he is most artful in leading his readers on, just as a little dog shows himself every now and then at a decoy and thus draws the inquisitive ducks after him till they drift in with all exit cut off.

The Chinese have a singular mode of catching these ducks.

Ted learned to use the bow and arrow, and brought down many a bird for supper, and proud he was when he served up for his father a wild duck, shot, plucked, and cooked all by himself.

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To boyle Ducks after the french fashion.

He has gone to-day to carry ducks and pigeons to the Fort.

" "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.

While stopping here, we were much amused by watching a party of them engaged in hunting ducks in one of the lagoons making up from the Gila.

" "Her mother, under the advice of the chief of the clan Brentwood, has been making a lot of bad investments for herself and her two daughters: in other words, she has been making ducks and drakes of the Brentwood fortune.

We did not keep any through the winter, consequently we had to purchase the eggs, which were placed under hens; for those eggs we paid four cents each, and out of thirteen, which was the number given to each hen, we never reared more than eight ducks.

He saw several birds that resembled the wild duck, but they flew by without noticing him, and he could understand that none among them was the right one.

No one can find amusement in this desolate region but the sportsman; and he may live in continual enjoyment, and slay wild ducks and snipes in abundance; a number of buffaloes are to be seen grazing on the marshes.

'Take any one,' says the defendant's counsel, reminding me of the defence of a man charged with stealing a duck, and having given seven different accounts as to how he became possessed of it, his counsel was at last asked which he relied on.

He then took the net off from the end of the ditch, and taking out, one by one, the ducks that were in it, dislocated their necks.