United Kingdom - Ireland

Apr. 17 Mr. Drake is a regular as clockwork. Every morning just as Mr. Ford is about to start washing up after breakfast, he pops his head in the kitchen window and asks for his cup of tea. 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 beak inside the spout for a second cuppa, but that gives him a guilty 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 safety of his own private swimming pool - a bucket in the garden

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