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Updated: June 13, 2025
Now before any girl who chances to read the foregoing and packs her trunks for this tropical spot, let me warn her that it is so hot that the powder stays on about as well as water on a duck's back, and a lizard is liable to drop in her lap at any time.
In discovering and in eluding its enemies, and in many other ways, the duck's wits are very sharp, but to attribute to them a knowledge of the virtues of fresh water over salt in a certain unusual emergency an emergency that could not have occurred to the race of ducks, much less to individuals often enough for a special instinct to have been developed to meet it is to make them entirely human.
While I stood awkwardly confronting the two girls, Krajiek came up from the barn to see what was going on. With him was another Shimerda son. Even from a distance one could see that there was something strange about this boy. As he approached us, he began to make uncouth noises, and held up his hands to show us his fingers, which were webbed to the first knuckle, like a duck's foot.
Her scant hair was of a scorched red tone, she was freckled down into her collar, her elbows waggled to the mare's jog, and her voice was as flat as a duck's. Her nag had trouble to keep up, and her tiny faded bonnet had even more to keep on.
The words of the orator had rolled from his uniform like water from a duck's back. The next speaker devoted his time to a fierce denunciation of the church, and ended with a bitter denial of the existence of God. When the last echoes of the cheers had died away there was a stir near the stand and Stuart saw the stalwart figure of Dr. Woodman suddenly rise.
A painter, something of a genius in his line, but erratic and unstable in his character, known more or less for several "affairs of gallantry" which had slipped off his easy conscience like water off a duck's back, not a highly cultured man by any means, because ignorant of many of the finer things in art and letters, and without any positively assured position.
'No, you haven't; you've dog's-eared it. It's frightfully irritating, dear, how you take no notice of my rebukes or my comments. Upon my word, what I say to you seems to go in at one ear and out at the other, just like water on a duck's back. 'How does the water on a duck's back get into the dog's ears? I mean the duck's ears. Oh, I'm sorry. I won't do it again.
"Why, you know," said Simon, off whom all such pretty side compliments as these were wont to roll like water off a duck's back "why, you know, about that paper?" "What paper?" said Loman, impatiently. "The one that was stolen out of the Doctor's study, you know. Isn't that a go? But we're going to hush it up. Honour bright!" Loman's face at that moment was anything but encouraging.
A sphygmograph stood upon the table and a gasometer-like engine, which was new to Dr. Ripley, in the corner. A book-case full of ponderous volumes in French and German, paper-covered for the most part, and varying in tint from the shell to the yoke of a duck's egg, caught his wandering eyes, and he was deeply absorbed in their titles when the door opened suddenly behind him.
These just-hatched molluscs, though aquatic in their nature, survived on the duck's feet, in damp air, from twelve to twenty hours; and in this length of time a duck or heron might fly at least six or seven hundred miles, and if blown across the sea to an oceanic island, or to any other distant point, would be sure to alight on a pool or rivulet.
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