MacBull. "I shall be a gay grass widower for the next two months—wife's gone for a holiday to the West Indies."
O'Bear. "Jamaica?"
MacBull. "No, it was her own idea."
"He is only a tame duck who with sheepish timidity attempts to controvert the determination of a body of frontiersmen from their purpose by firing at them with a water squirt."
Bulawayo Chronicle.
It sounds more like a wild duck.
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"'Borrowed Thoughts.'
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