Show A misapplied word everybody who has had experience in carving knows that not only are sharper knives required but also probably more skill and practice to carve a duck than any other fowl ad miral dewey was a guest at a dinner table where his host had that serious task to perform As the admiral watched the almost desperate en deavors cea vors of the carver to disintegrate the bird he smiled mildly his host happened to notice it and felt a bit piqued as he was not in the best of temper anyway you appear to be amused at my awkwardness admiral said he not at all sir not at all was the reply I 1 was only thinking why the term duck was used as a word of en dearment and goose one of reproach |