A Duck-Hunting Trip 



On the Cooking of Wild Ducks 



And just iiere I want to suggest 

 something which ought to greatly cur- 

 tail the distribution of wild ducks 

 among our friends. In households 

 where no idea prevails of the differ- 

 ence between properly cooking a wild 

 duck and one brought up in a barn- 

 yard, a complimentary gift of wild 

 fowl is certainly of questionable ad- 

 visability; for if these are cooked 

 after the fashion prescribed for the 

 domestic duck they will be so thor- 

 oughly discredited in the eating that 

 the recipient of the gift will come 

 near suspecting a practical joke, and 

 the donor will be nearly guilty of 

 waste. 



In Virginia they have a very good 

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