Vocabulary
Plot
Characters
Quackers
The Search Party
100
A shallow, flat-bottomed open boat with sharp bow and square stern.
What is a skiff?
100
What holiday does "The Ledge" take place on?
What is Christmas?
100
The person opposed to the fisherman going duck hunting
Who is the wife?
100
Where they shoot the ducks
What is the ledge?
100
The body recovered by the search party
Who is the fisherman ?
200
To go beyond or rise above material existence.
What is transcend?
200
A sand bar that is submerged by the water in high tide
What is the ledge?
200
Who is described as "gruff"
Who is the fisherman?
200
The decoys used for duck hunting
What are tollers?
200
This was frozen under the fisherman's arm
What is the small rubber boot?
300
Empty space; emptiness
What is vacuity?
300
The person that dies first
Who is the nephew?
300
The inlander who goes on the hunting trip with the son and fisherman
Who is the nephew?
300
They collect the ducks in this boat
What is the skiff?
300
They noticed the fisherman's foot in an unusual position
What is wedged into the crevice of the ledge?
400
to forgive; set someone free of blame
What is absolve?
400
How the fisherman, his son, and his nephew first tried to save themselves.
What is shooting rounds into the air?
400
He is thirteen and excited about hunting
Who is the son?
400
Because of this condition, the nephew will not shoot the ducks
What is "ledge fever"?
400
They discovered the body on this day
What is the day after Christmas?
500
A lively or stylish manner.
What is jaunty?
500
He puts his son on his shoulders to keep him out of the water cold water.
What the fisherman does to try to save his son?
500
That farmer who is afraid of the sea but still wants to be a fisherman
Who is the nephew's father?
500
The son, nephew and fisherman are wearing this while hunting for the ducks
What are oilskins?
500
They towed the fisherman home in this boat
What is the fisherman's boat?
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