coup-d'oeils

Updated: July 10, 2025

Henry bitterly exclaimed against this cruelty, but Fred innocently replied that "he had no hand in the matter; he had thought, for some time, how much prettier they would look swimming like ducks, and therefore tried to teach them but the foolish things persisted in walking along with their eyes shut, and so got drowned." But one of Fred's grand coup-d'oeils was the affair of the cherry-pie.

Ella Rodman Church - A Grandmother's Recollections