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Identifier: amongfarmyardpe00pier (find matches)
Title: Among the farmyard people
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pierson, Clara Dillingham
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d never done anything else. The Dorking Cock stood on the bank.44 Who taught them to swim ? said he. Nobody, answered their mother 40 Among the Farmyard People proudly. They knew without beingtold. That is the way a Duck takes towater. And she gave a dainty lurch andwas among her brood. Well! exclaimed the Dorking Cock. I thought the little Dorkings were asbright as children could be, but they did ntknow as much as that. I must tell them.He stalked off, talking under his breath. They know more than that, said theDrake. Did you see how they ranahead of us when we stopped to talk ?They knew where to find water as soonas they were out of the shell. Still, theCock might not have believed that if Ihad told him. They had a good swim, and then allstood on the bank and dried themselves.This they did by squeezing the water outof their down with their bills. The Drake,the mother Duck, the five aunts, and thenine Ducklings all stood as tall and straightas they could, and turned and twisted their
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THEY HAD A GOOD SWIM. Page 40 The Duckling 41 long necks, and flapped their wings, andsqueezed their down, and murmured toeach other. And their father did nt tellthe little ones how, and their motherdid nt tell them how, and their five auntsdid nt tell them how, but they knewwithout being told. The Ducklings grew fast, and madefriends of all the farmyard people. Earlyevery morning they went to the brook.They learned to follow the brook to theriver, and here were wonderful things tobe seen. There was plenty to eat, too,in the soft mud under the water, and itwas easy enough to dive to it, or to reachdown their long necks while only theirpointed tails and part of their body couldbe seen above the water. Not that theyate the mud. They kept only the foodthat they found in it, and then let the mudslip out between the rough edges of theirbills. They swam and ate all day, andslept all night, and were dutiful Duck- 42 Among the Farmyard People lings who minded their mother, so it wasnot strang

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