Summary
Mist curls off the pre-dawn marsh as a duck-call echoes like a cracked oboe; in this liminal half-light a club of plaid patriarchs treat the wetlands like their private roulette table, wagering not coins but daughters. The sole heiress, a wisp of defiance in oil-slick boots, loves a soft-eyed ornithologist who can’t stomach buckshot; her sire, a blustering baron of decoys, has promised her to the swaggering merchant of munitions. To untangle the knot he invents a mythic contest: whoever bags the spectral black-duck that outwits every season wins the girl as trophy. What follows is a carnival of misfires, sinking skiffs, and midnight masquerades until the father, stripped of pride and powder, confronts the arithmetic of hearts and rewrites the rules on water-stained parchment, handing his child the quill.
Synopsis
The daughter of a member of a duck hunting club is in love with one man, while her father chooses another. Finally the father strives to bring the affair to a proper and just ending by promising his daughter to the one who can bring in the elusive game.
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