Comments on: The Parish Wolf

By: sal

sal — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:35:54 +0000

So the reception was held at an airfield… an airfield surrounded by splashing and dabbling ducks? But was this a decoy airfield? And were these by inference decoy ducks? I suspect that Dobson’s pamphlet would be germane.

By: PansyCradledew

PansyCradledew — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:55:31 +0000

Eagle-eyed denizens of the Yard may remember the famous ‘Moorhen Incident’ which was the cause of a fracas between myself and Mr Key. For those of you who missed it, suffice to say that said moorhen was nowhere near the coast of Marseilles at the time. Suffice to say also that I am dubious about his knowledge of the lifespan of ducks

By: Outa_Spaceman

Outa_Spaceman — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:15:05 +0000

R.
It should be borne in mind that the ducks could have been, as is so often the case around Hooting Yard, spectral ducks projected from somewhere behind the Big Iron Fence.

Outa_Spaceman

By: Frank Key

Frank Key — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:57:35 +0000

Dobson wrote a pamphlet entitled “Some Comments About The Lifespan Of Ducks”, which would probably answer your questions. Alas, it is out of print.

By: R

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:26:23 +0000

How long does a duck live? If ‘no duck dared come near for fear of being torn to bits’, yet the vulpine howling had not been heard in a dozen years, then these must be superannuated wildfowl indeed to have remembered even its last-recorded effusions. Or, more intriguingly, is a duck’s fear of such predators somehow passed on to succeeding generations of chicks? If so, it is no wonder that the folk of the parish retained a lingering fear of the winsome, windswept wolf as well: doubtless they broke fast daily on ducks’ eggs, and serve them right, I say, if they ingested more than they bargained for.