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Updated: May 16, 2025
Indeed, unless all plans go wrong, we may very likely have canvasbacks on the boat; although I can not promise you that John will be as good a chef as our friend here at Luigi's. All good buccaneers use their fair captives well." "Indeed! And why do you not ask Sally Byington into your list of prisoners, since you fancy her so much." "Nay, say not so, Helena.
"Why, that all this water over yonder west of us is so shallow that it takes a wise oyster boat to get through to Morgan City. The shrimpers who reap these waters, even the market shooting schooners who carry canvasbacks out of these feeding beds in the marshes, have to know the tides and the winds as well, and if one be wrong the boat goes aground on these wide shoals.
"Well," said I, "it looks as if we would fare pretty well for lunch. John" and I called my China boy "again I find renewed cause for felicitations on your rescue." John stood looking at me blankly. "You savee, John?" said I, showing him one of the canvasbacks, and he remarked mildly, "All litee."
Even the canvasbacks must feed on a certain kind of wild celery; the oysters be dredged from a particular cove, and the terrapin drawn from their beds with the Hodges' coat of arms cut in their backs before they would be allowed a place on the ex-clerk's table.
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.
Once a month, in the season, we dine at his house, with a mixed company, in a desert of dining room at a vast table loaded with masses of gold plate. The peaches are from South Africa; the strawberries from the Riviera. His chef ransacks the markets for pheasants, snipe, woodcock, Egyptian quail and canvasbacks.
So I began forthwith making much ado about ordering our supper, which as usual really was much a matter of Jean's taste. "We have to-night in the ice-boxes, M'sieu," said that artist, "some cock oysters which are dreams. Moreover, I have laid aside two canvasbacks, the best I ever saw it was in the hope that some really good friend of mine would come in.
The native State of Patrick Henry Hanway was a moss-grown member of the republic and had been one of the original thirteen. It possessed with other impedimenta a moss-grown aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless tow in summer, clung to the duello, and talked of days of greatness which had been before the war.
When this news was understood by men, the shocked aristocracy let their canvasbacks grow cold and their burgundy stand untasted. With horrified voice they commanded "No!" The United States Senate had been ever reserved for gentlemen, and Patrick Henry Hanway was a clod.
He had been born on the eastern shore of Maryland and was brought up on canvasbacks, soft-shell crabs and terrapin not to mention clams and sheepshead.
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