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The Hen That Has Hatched Ducks

'Dear, dear! Cluckety-cluck!
Who'd be a hen that has hatched out a duck?
Cluck-cluck! What shall I do?
Was ever a hen with such pickles as you?'

Notes

From ALL THE OTHER CHILDREN, by Cicely Fox Smith, published by Methuen & Co., London, UK, © 1933, p. 34.

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