A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Beatrix Potter's farmyard tale: Jemima Puddle-duck flies off to hatch her eggs in a wood, where a polite gentleman with sandy whiskers offers her a nest, until Kep the collie sees through his plan.
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On the farm, the farmer’s wife never let the ducks hatch their own eggs. She gave them to a hen instead. A fussy hen leading ducklings is a funny sight! But Jemima Puddle-duck was cross about it.
Her sister-in-law, Rebeccah Puddle-duck, was glad to let the hen do the work. “I have not the patience to sit on a nest for twenty-eight days,” she said, “and no more have you, Jemima. You would let them go cold!”
“I wish to hatch my own eggs,” quacked Jemima. “I will hatch them all by myself!” She tucked her eggs into one secret spot after another. But every time, somebody found them and took them away.
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