Cluck! cluck! Come, chicks! come! O, do come out of the water! Water is so cold and so wet! You will drown! You will drown! Why do you try to swim? Mother can not swim. And mother's chicks can not swim. Why do you make such trouble? Be my good chicks and come now! * See preface. The great white swan can swim. Geese swim and ducks swim. But who ever saw a hen swim? Come out of the water, chicks! Mother will show you many things. That will be better than to swim! See! Louis has crumbs for you! Dear little Louis! Throw the crumbs. Call my little chicks for me. Come up to the house, chicks. Mother will show you some peas. And peas are so good to eat! Are you ducklings, after all? Did I sit on duck's eggs? Come or mother must think Lo! |