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Apr. 17 Mr. Drake is a bold sort of duck and swims across the sink to take a closer look at Sally the cat, but Puss has got her claws out and Mr. Drake would be well advised to leave well alone, although Mr. Drake knows well that Pussy likes water less than the likes ducks. Mr. Drake Is A Domesticated Duck: Every morning precisely 9 O'clokc, just as she has finished in washing up the breakfast things, Mrs. E. Ford of Coulsdon, Sureey has a visitor. It's Mr. Drake, the domesticate duck, and he's called for his breakfast. As soon as he appears at the window above the sink, Mrs. E. Ford puts a cup of tea and a plate of brownredd and butter on the draining board. Having finished his beakfast, Mr. Drake hops into the sink to make his morningilet. Sometimes, Sally the cat comes along tosee what's doing, but when Mr. Drake splashes her, she beats a hasty retreat. The Mrs. Ford leaves the teapot on the draining board, temptation is t Tuch for the tea-loving Mr. Drake, who pops his bak inside the spout for a second cuppa, but that gives him auilty conscious and when e hears Mrs but that gives him aguilty conscious and when he hears Mrs Ford's footsteps approaching the kitchen, he's off out of the window in a flurry of feathers and back into the saf3ety of his own private swimming pool - a bucket in the garden

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