Chapter FOUR: In the Country, by F Gray Severne

Ducklings big and ducklings small,
This is how we feed them all--
Yellowbill and Featherbreast,
Speckletail, and all the rest:--

On sweet meal they dine and sup--
Oh, how fast they eat it up!
'Tis indeed a pretty sight--
Soon the bucket's empty quite.

"Quack!" when dinner is begun;
"Quack!" they say when it is done;
Though it wasn't known before,
"Quack's" a duckling's word for "more."

Then the pretty feathered things
Tuck their heads beneath their wings,
Just as if for rest inclined,
Quacking: "How well we have dined!"

Later on, at evening cool,
You will find them in the pool;
Yellowbill and Featherbreast,
Speckletail, and all the rest!