![]() ![]() ![]() The other ducks liked much better to swim about in the canals than to climb the slippery banks and sit under the burdock leaves to have a gossip with her. In this snug retreat sat a duck upon her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch but the pleasure she had felt at first was almost gone she had begun to think it a wearisome task, for the little ones were so long coming out of their shells, and she seldom had visitors. The spot was as wild as if it had been in the very center of the thick wood. In a sunny spot stood a pleasant old farmhouse circled all about with deep canals and from the walls down to the water's edge grew great burdocks, so high that under the tallest of them a little child might stand upright. ![]() Yes, it was beautiful, it was delightful in the country. The stork paraded about among them on his long red legs, chattering away in Egyptian, the language he had learned from his lady mother.Īll around the meadows and cornfields grew thick woods, and in the midst of the forest was a deep lake. The wheat fields were golden, the oats were green, and the hay stood in great stacks in the green meadows. ![]()
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