Potter, Miriam Clark, 1886-1965, Balcom, Sophia T · New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 365
lk about theirtroubles. The needles in the pin cushion stared allthe time, with their round eyes. One day the mother duck walked through the yardwith her fluffy ducklings. They went down to BluePond for a swim. I wish I could hatch, like a real duck egg, saidthe white work basket egg. I wish I were… … Out of it stepped a lovely woodenduck. gave him an empty spool, out of her work basket;and the wooden egg. The baby was pleased with these things. He tookthe egg and looked at it, first in one hand and then 352 THE WORK BASKET EGG in the other. He tried to eat it, and when he foundit was too big…
Children's poetry, American
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