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He held Johnny on his knee, and now and then looked at Nan. "It's a dog's life," he said at last. "It's far worse than a dog's. You'd be better off going with a barrow, Nan. I'm a good mind to leave you mine, Nan. You'd get a bit of air, then, and you'd make well, a good bit more than you do now." Widgeon had checked himself suddenly.
Now, my lads, we've nearly won. Two men to go with me below." The captain sprang down, followed by Billy Widgeon and Jimpny, while, as the men cheered and went on pumping, Mark ran to the cabin to return with spirits to revive the exhausted men. It was a good idea, followed out by Mrs Strong and the major's wife, who handed refreshments to all the men in turn.
In the lower parts of Bengal, wild ducks, widgeon, and teal, are often taken by means of earthen pots. A number of these pots are floated amongst them in the lakes where they abound, to the sight of which they soon become reconciled, and approach them fearlessly.
"And you mean to tell me," said Billy Widgeon, as he stroked and patted his monkey's head one evening during the homeward voyage "you mean to tell me, Mr Small, as that there island sank outer sight and is all gone?" "That's it, Billy," replied the boatswain. "But it'll come up again, won't it?" said the stowaway. "That's more than anybody can tell, my lad," said Small.
"A crocodile got hold of him by this pool." "How, how!" cried Bruff, throwing up his head and giving vent to a most dismal yell, as if overpowered by the recollection. "Ah, I said as they likes dog," said Billy Widgeon sententiously. Bang, bang! Then, as the smoke rose up slowly after the discharge of both barrels of his piece, Morgan exclaimed: "See that?" "See it!
In these fens are abundance of those admirable pieces of art called decoys that is to say, places so adapted for the harbour and shelter of wild fowl, and then furnished with a breed of those they call decoy ducks, who are taught to allure and entice their kind to the places they belong to, that it is incredible what quantities of wild fowl of all sorts, duck, mallard, teal, widgeon, &c., they take in those decoys every week during the season; it may, indeed, be guessed at a little by this, that there is a decoy not far from Ely which pays to the landlord, Sir Thomas Hare, 500 pounds a year rent, besides the charge of maintaining a great number of servants for the management; and from which decoy alone, they assured me at St.
ROAST WILD DUCK. A wild duck or a widgeon will require twenty or twenty-five minutes roasting, according to the size. A teal, from fifteen to twenty minutes; and other birds of this kind, in proportion to their size, a longer or a shorter time. Serve them up with gravy, and lemons cut in quarters, to be used at pleasure.
"No, no, one at a time," he cried angrily, as the men sprang up together. "We must not capsize the boat here. Now you, my man," he continued, sitting fast, as the sailor stepped across and took the mate's place before Mr Gregory rose. "Now you, Widgeon."
The first thing in order after our arrival was, of course, dinner, which I found quite ready when I rode into camp, the piece de resistance consisting of the widgeon which I had shot, and which Piet had found still hanging across the pony's withers when Master Jack arrived in camp, and had had sense enough to hand over to Jan to prepare.
"And I lays as they're eels," said Billy Widgeon, as he carried on a discussion with Small. "And I says they're big jacks or pikes," replied the boatswain; "but I want to know wheer they're going to feed the beasts." "Feed what beasts?" said Mark, who was listening to their dispute and gazing down into a good-sized pool where the water was still in motion.
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