The country furnishes beef, pork, and fowl all locally matured; home-cured ham and bacon; every known variety of hardy and tender vegetables; home-made butter; bread made from flour grown and ground on the premises; pies whose four constituents-flour, lard, butter and fruit-are products of the country; home-made cheese; wild honey; home-made wines; splendid fish caught from the Peace, and a bewildering variety of wild game-moose, caribou, venison, grouse, brant, wild geese, canvas-backs, and mallards.
"The New North"
Agnes Deans Cameron
Down in the valley you see little but the flocking of blackbirds in the streets, or the low flight of mallards over the tulares, and the gathering of clouds behind Williamson.
"The Land Of Little Rain"
Mary Hunter Austin
He knew that the wily old mallards were not yet satisfied.
"The Adventures of Bobby Orde"
Stewart Edward White