Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1915 — “The Duck” [ARTICLE]

“The Duck”

A schoolboy assigned to prepare an essay on ducks submitted the following: “The duck is a low, heavyset bird, composed mostly of meat and feathers. He is a mighty poor singer, having a coarse voice, caused by getting to many frogt in his neck. He likes .the water and carries a toy balloon in his stomach to keep from sinking. The duck has only two legs and they are set so far back on his running gears by nature that they come pretty near missing his body. "Some ducks when - they get big have curls on their tails and are called drakes. Drakes don’t have- to set or hatch, but Just loaf and go swimming and eat everything in sight If I was to be a duck, I would rather be a drake.”