In his autobiography,
MY WICKED WICKED WAYS, Errol Flynn discovers that ducks possess the ability to pass a chunk of bacon through their system in an incredibly short time: from beak end to back end in eight minutes. He further discovers that if the greasy morsel is attached to a fishing line the line can be pulled back and forth like a string through a big webfooted bead. Thus the same morsel can be entered into a second duck, and a third, and a fourth and so on, until he has threaded eight ducks front to rear in a little more than an hour.
By this time the waterfowl are understandably impatient with their predicament and ready to take to the air. So young Flynn ties the hind duck's line to the end still hanging out of the front duck's bill, then shoos them into circular flight. Round and round they fly, a feathery pinwheel, ascending into avian glory.
"Well done, Flynn," he congratulates himself. "You have created the world's first flying duck necklace."
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