CHAPTER VIII 
GLUCK AND WATER ROLL 
only bred by speciality breeders who have an 
exceptional love for them. These are Gluck and 
the Water Roll tours, and they may both seriously 
degenerate in the course of the year. 
To many minds Gluck as an embellishment is a 
superfluity, for even if it be perfect, clear in tone, slow 
and quiet, “gluck, gluck, gluck’’ (better written 
“ glook”), it is no greater ornament than deep flutes ; 
it heaves up in the song in a similar manner, but in it 
there is lacking the melancholy, plaintive appeal of 
flutes on “ dou.” 
P NHERE are certain prize winning tours which are 
TOURS THAT DEGENERATE 
Flutes compensate fully for Gluck, they are easier 
to cultivate, and do not degenerate, or very rarely, 
whereas Gluck, even with the slightest alteration in the 
feeding during the rearing period, will drop into the 
worst faults. 
From parents singing good Gluck there arise in the 
youngsters such things as kleck, kleck, klack, klack, and 
the fearsome chop and chap. If the young birds develop 
these dreadful tours the whole of the strain goes over- 
board, for what breeder cares to continue with such 
birds, even if a few of them should not have degenerated 
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