One scrambled on her back:
“That’s very rude,” said old Dame Duck;
“Get off! quack, quack, quack, quack!”
“’Tis close,” said Dame Duck, shoving out
The egg-shells with her bill;
“Besides, it never suits young ducks
To keep them sitting still.”
So rising from her nest, she said,
“Now, children, look at me:
A well-bred duck should waddle so,