The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 197
ck,and cackle with her. At last one egg-shell after another burst ojien. Piep ! piep ! it cried, and in all the eggs therewere little creatures that stuck out their heads. Quack ! quack ! they said ; and they allcame quacking out as fast as they could, lookingall nnmd them under the green leaves ;… … Dye think this is all the world? said themother. That stretches far across the other sideof the garden, quite into the parsons field; but Ihave never been there yet. I hope you are all to-gether, and she stood up. No, I have not all.The largest egg still lies there. How long is thatto last? I am…
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