[OH, WHAT A DUCK!]
BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
"Is that the duck, Joe Biddle? The little stone on top of the big one?"
"That's the duck. Do you s'pose you could hit him from here, and scare him off his nest?"
"Nest? Why, it's bigger 'n a peck measure, and the stone on top isn't bigger 'n my two fists."
"The big stone's the nest. You're the first fellow I ever knew that didn't know duck. Guess you don't have much fun in the city. Charley McGraw, Sid Wayne never played duck in all his life."
Sid blushed in spite of himself, for he found that he was being "looked at" with a kind of wonder; but he had some help right away from Charley McGraw.
"Well, maybe he didn't. But we wouldn't play it with such a rig as that over in Putney."
"Putney!" sneered Bob Wilson.