Yuanyang, the Mandarin duck, mates for life, and is hence a symbol of conjugal felicity.

The area treated was always the side of the thighs, where she had visible saddlebags.

A gape-mouthed wicker trunk served as a hive.

No, he would take up land as near this homestead as possible, and build a brick house on it. And he would have a number of fine horses, better than anyone else's, and some sheep that would pay, and a few cows. Always milk and butter with the wheat-meal damper.