FOUR DUCKS ON A POND
The four little girls in the picture are watching some ducks taking their week-old ducklings for their first swim. They are standing right back against the wall so they will not frighten the ducks. Along the side of the pond are a lot of rushes, where ther sleep at night. The water is very! deep and muddy, but the ducks do |not mind that. There is hardly a splash in the water as they glide along: A loud quacking noise is heard and tout of the rushes emerges a big wlite swan. With a stately air he travels along, | his feet invisible beneath the brown, j
calm water. There is a slight splashing sound and four little heads turn towards where it comes from. The ducklings are there, but where is their mother? Suddenly another ripple comes from the water, and the mother . duck appears—in its mouth some food which she has been to the bottom of the pond for. She holds one end in her rounded yellow beak, and the ducklings eat it. Next she dips her glossy head into the water, then pulls it out and shakes the water off her down. "MARCEL." Upper Hutt.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 5
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202FOUR DUCKS ON A POND Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 5
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