The Tale of the Mallard Ducks

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The Tale of the Mallard Ducks - Today is supposed to be the final holiday of the summer - "Labor Day." Ergo, I will labor a wee bit. Outside of these walls is thunder and lightning, such that the worms are rising in the gardens and the golfers are running for the clubhouses. Me? I am sitting at my messy desk, pounding away on my ten-dollar keyboard, wondering if I should dare Thor to toss a lightning bolt or two in this direction and screw up this old computer for once and for all. I thought about the rain and the water to be fed into the lakes and the streams - and what that water will mean to the critters that hang out in those damp places. Of all the critters who make those watering holes their homes, maybe the prettiest of them all is the wiggle-tailed Mallard duck. Lots of colors from head to toe, this pretty bird floats around atop the water and, now and then, tips over with its tail way up in the air and its pretty head under the waves, There are fish down there to be caught and swallowed. "Two Mallards can catch more fish than can one Mallard." So it was that I thought. So I developed a two-headed Mallard. One thing I forgot to do, however. That one thing was, how can I get my newly-born, two-headed Mallard duck to catch even one little fishie? Looks to me like this is one pretty bird who is going to be mighty hungry before the sun goes down. * * * * * * * * * * Image source: Original photo from Pixabay dot com, Edit by Gus Kilthau * * * * * * * * * *