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Apr. 17 Is there now here fellow can have a bath in private asks Mr. Drake. In the house its the cat that worries to and in the garden it's the dog. Mr. Drake Is A Domesticated Duck: Every morningprecisely 9 o'clock, just as she has finished washing up the breakfast things, Mr. E. Ford of Coulsdon, Surrey has a visiior. It's Mr. Fake, the domesticate duck, and he's called for his breakfast. As soon as he appears t the window above the silk, Mrs. E. Ford puts a cup of tea, and a plate of brownred and butter on the draining board. Having finished his breakfast, Mr. Drake hops into the sick to take his morning toilet. Sometimes, Sally the cat comes along to see what's doing, but when Mr. Drake Splashes her, she beats a hasty retreat. When Mrs. Ford leaves the teapot in the draining board, teption is too much for the tea-loving Mr. Drake, who pops his beak to inside the spout for a second Cuppa, but that gives him a guilty conscious and when he hearts Mrs. Ford's footsteps approaching the Kitchen, he off out of the window in a flurry ofeathers and back into the safety of his own private swimmingool - a bucket in the garden

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