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Updated: May 7, 2025
"If the woodcock is as good as the canvasback," was her somewhat irrelevant reply, "I shall call the evening a success, after all." But Helena scarcely more than tasted her bird, and pushed back after a time the broiled mushroom which Jean offered her gently. "Does not your appetite remain?" I inquired. "Come, you must not break Jean's heart doubly." She only pushed back her chair.
These ice-boxes were such as to offer continual delight to any epicure, what with their rows of fat clean fishes and crabs and oysters, the birds nicely plucked, all the dainties which this rich market of the South could afford, from papabotte to terrapin. Helena herself selected two woodcock and approved the judgment of Jean in canvasback.
They were of many sorts and sizes, and Mr. Kincaid named them to Bobby as he received them. "These are the boys!" said he. "Good old green-heads, Worth all the other ducks put together. Their celery-fed canvasbacks may be better never had a chance to try them but the canvasback in this country can't touch the mallards. And here, these are blue-bill. They come to a decoy almost too easy.
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