*And failed to hit anything, especially a duck.
This is so unusual in situations like this that it must be reported
under new humor regulations. If it had hit a duck, which quacked
and then landed on somebody’s head, this would, of course, have
been very droll and would certainly have been reported. Instead,
the arrow drifted in the breeze a little on the way and landed in
an oak tree some thirty feet away, where it missed a
squirrel.