RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31114, 18 July 1966, Page 22

RANDOM REMINDER

LIVE DUCK

She was driving home down Ferry road, thinking the usual thoughts about what had to be done for dinner and how was it that housekeeping budgets always broke down before the ink was dry on the paper, when she saw a very large dog trotting over the Heathcote bridge carrying an unusual burden. Between its rows of large white Pluto-like teeth the animal held a duck. It was a very large duck, a Muscovy duck, and it waa clearly very much alive. The woman hastened to help. She stopped her car at the end of the bridge and began to run back to

release the duck. To her gratification she discovered that a truck driver had also stopped his vehicle and was coming back to lend a hand too. As they approached, the dog put down the duck and stood over It, looking rather like a small investor scenting a large profit and ready to fight to the death for the shares. The woman and the truck driver conferred briefly as they approached. She said she would lure the dog away and while she did that would he get the duck and put it in the water. He agreed. She carried out her part

of the plan most efficiently. The dog was enticed away from its intended victim and the truck driver dashed in and picked up the duck. But then the truck driver kept on dash-ing-back to his truck and away at high speed. It was a sorry business. The woman is not built on the lines of an Amazon: but in view of the probable fate of the duck, she feels that if she should ever chance upon the truck driver again, she is capable of wringing his neck.