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days after they are killed if the
ROAST WILD DUCK.—It is best to keep wild ducks a few days after they are killed if the weather is cold.
— from Civic League Cook Book by North Dakota) Civic League (Williston

day as this A knapsack is the
In such a sweltering day as this A knapsack is the devil!
— from Poems, 1799 by Robert Southey

deposed Amir that Ayoub Khan is the
| that Abdul Rahman, who stands first for the throne, according to the Mahomedan law of succession, is a first cousin of the deposed Amir; that Ayoub Khan is the late Amir Yakoob Khan's full brother, and that he comes 2nd, and that the third is the little boy, Musa Jan, who is Jakoob Khan's son.
— from Private Journal of Henry Francis Brooke Late Brigadier-General Commanding 2nd Infantry Brigade, Kandahar Field Force, Southern Afghanistan, from April 22nd to August 16th, 1880 by Henry Francis Brooke

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