“Cooper, I want to have a word with you about your essay.”
“Yes, Mrs. Chandler.”
“As you know, the essay was about the causes of World War I, which began one hundred years ago this year.”
“Yes, Mrs. Chandler.”
“And yet you say here in your essay that the war began when the duck of peace was stolen and ended when it was reclaimed.”
“That’s right, Mrs. Chandler.”
“And you don’t see any problem with this? What about the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?”
“Well, as I said in the essay, Mrs. Chandler, he had been given the duck of peace to hold onto and the assassins stole it from him.”
“But how could that be when Austria-Hungary was the first to declare war?”
“The Archduke had left the duck of peace to the King of England, so when he died whoever had it wasn’t the right person.”
“And I suppose that means that all future wars had something to do with this ridiculous duck of yours?”
“That’s right, Mrs. Chandler. World War II started when Germany stole the duck from Poland.”
“How in heaven’s name did it get to Poland?”
“It migrated. That’s what ducks do, after all, Mrs. Chandler!”
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