[Illustration]
Look at the ducks in the woods.
They are the ducks that live at the barn.
I see my black hen with them.
She has all of her children.
The duck and chicks are Jet’s children.
Don’t you see them running about?
That little duck’s name is Ducky Bet.
Let us go where they are, Max.
How came you here, Mother Jet?
Where are your children going?
The ducks are going to the pond.
Jet does not know where they are going.
Ducky Bet knows where they are going.
The ducks will get into the water.
Ducky Bet may go into the water, too.
She is running after the other ducks.
Let us go back to the pond, Max.
Alice! Alice! Come and look at Jet!
She is running after Ducky Bet.
Bet is running after the other ducks.
Jet says, “Cluck, cluck, cluck!
Come back, baby duck, duck, duck!”
The other ducks say, “Quack, quack!
Ducky Bet, go back, back, back!”
There! Ducky Bet is in the water.