It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.


The Book of Household Management (ed. 1861)


It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful...

It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful...

It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful...

It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful...