Looking for a quiet place to hide her eggs to hatch them herself, Jemima Puddle-duck encounters a gentleman fox who offers to host them at his home and organizes a party for the same evening to mark the event. Fortunately Kep, the farmer's dog, understands the fox's plan and saves Jemima and her eggs. Book illustrated with beautiful Potter's watercolors.What a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen!-Listen to the story of Jemima Puddle-duck, who was annoyed because the farmer's wife would not let her hatch her own eggs.Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Rebeccah Puddle-duck, was perfectly willing to leave the hatching to some one else-"I have not the patience to sit on a nest for twenty-eight days; and no more have you, Jemima. You would let them go cold; you know you would!""I wish to hatch my own eggs; I will hatch them all by myself," quacked Jemima Puddle-duck.She tried to hide her eggs; but they were always found and carried off.Jemima Puddle-duck became quite desperate. She determined to make a nest right away from the farm.She set off on a fine spring afternoon along the cart-road that leads over the hill.She was wearing a shawl and a poke bonnet.When she reached the top of the hill, she saw a wood in the distance.She thought that it looked a safe quiet spot.Jemima Puddle-duck was not much in the habit of flying. She ran downhill a few yards flapping her shawl, and then she jumped off into the air.
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