Have never any pretty chucklings."
For why!—each little yellow navy
Went down—all downy—to old Davy!
She had a lake—a pond, I mean—
Its wave was rather thick than pearly—
She had two ducks, their napes were green—
She had a drake, his tail was curly,—
Yet 'spite of drake, and ducks, and pond,
No little ducks had Mrs. Bond!
The birds were both the best of mothers—