In the Country, by F Gray Severne.

    Ducklings big and ducklings small,

    This is how we feed them all—

    Yellowbill and Featherbreast,

    Speckletail, and all the rest:—

    

    On sweet meal they dine and sup—

    Oh, how fast they eat it up!

    ’Tis indeed a pretty sight—

    Soon the bucket’s empty quite.

    

    “Quack!” when dinner is begun;

    “Quack!” they say when it is done;

    Though it wasn’t known before,

    “Quack’s” a duckling’s word for “more.”

    

    Then the pretty feathered things

    Tuck their heads beneath their wings,

    Just as if for rest inclined,

    Quacking: “How well we have dined!”

    

    Later on, at evening cool,

    You will find them in the pool;

    Yellowbill and Featherbreast,

    Speckletail, and all the rest!