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Updated: May 7, 2025
I told James 'twas a canvasback, and he blazed away at it, but missed it by three fathom, as might have been expected. Finally, my game leg rheumatiz, you understand begun to give out. So I flops down in the shade of a sand bank to rest, and the reverend goes poking off by himself.
Daniver, to my surprise, openly rebelled at leaving these flesh-pots, where canvasback and terrapin might be had by shaking the bushes, and where the supply of ninety-three seemed, after all, not exhausted. Of course, my men had nothing to say about it, but when it came to my partners and associates, Lafitte and L'Olonnois, there was open mutiny.
I met him several times and found that he never could be reconciled to our two most famous dishes terrapin and canvasback duck the duck nearly raw. He said indignantly to one hostess, who chided him for his neglect of the canvasback: "Madam, when your ancestors left England two hundred and fifty years ago, the English of that time were accustomed to eat their meat raw; now they cook it."
Strange: "Then, if it is not too indiscreet, might I inquire what in the world has lured you again to our shores, if it was not the oyster, nor the turkey, nor yet the canvasback?" "The American dinner-party," said the lady, with the same burlesque. "Well," he consented, "I think I understand you.
After lunch two of the party in the runabout drove out of the valley to some place familiar to them. They returned later with the limit of jacksnipe big, fat, thick-breasted, meaty looking birds. My companion and myself returned to our blinds. The duck flight during the fore part of the afternoon was exceedingly light. I managed to land, among others, a beautiful canvasback drake.
When I wants wild ducks or wenson, all I got to do is to say to dat Yankee oberseer, 'Missus and I want some deer or some canvasback, I spect you had better go look for some, Massa Buccra. No, no, Massa, I ain't so ignorant as to let any man come over me to make seed-corn out of me.
In a dining-room soft-hung with piquant scenes, even buttermilk and dog-biscuit, burnt canvasback and cold Burgundy lose half their bitterness.
But, since Mademoiselle " and here I smiled "and I, also, are very hungry this evening, we wish a woodcock after the canvasback, if you do not mind. Perhaps it is not too much?" "Mais non!" replied Jean. "You are of those who know well that to eat too much is not to dine well. But I shall bring you two oysters, marinière a sauce my own wife invented.
His desert appetite had stayed with him, you see, and such little whims as orderin' a three-inch tenderloin steak frescoed with a pound of mushrooms and swimmin' in the juice squeezed from a pair of canvasback ducks got to be a reg'lar thing for him. It was there he met and married the husky built head waitress and moved into a double-breasted mansion up on Capitol Hill.
A short time ago, whirling over good roads and bad roads, through orange groves with their loads of fruit, rapidly assuming golden hues; through miles and miles of vineyards, now 'reft of all leaves, vineyards in which the pruners were already busily at work; past acres and acres of ground being prepared for grain; through wooded canyons and pine-screened vales; ascending from almost sea level to upwards of 3000 feet a party of us went to Warner's Ranch after the famous canvasback ducks.
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