Or quack like my silly old dad.

I want to be utterly other,

And frightfully modern and mad."

"Do you know," said the turkey, "you're quacking!

There's a fox creeping up thro' the rye;

And, if you're not utterly lacking,

You'll make for that duck-pond. Good-bye!"

"I won't," said the duckling. "I'll lift him

A beautiful song, like a sheep;

And when I have—as it were—biffed him,