“DUCKS’ DITTY.” By Kenneth Grahame
Can you decorate the page that you've been given with sketches of the dabbling ducks and the characters of Rat and Mole as they take the little boat down the river? (The poem has been stuck into your yellow books.)
Can you recite this poem? – or a part of it?
All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!
Ducks’ tails, drakes’ tails,
Yellow feet a-quiver,
Yellow bills all out of sight
Busy in the river!
Slushy green undergrowth
Where the roach swim—
Here we keep our larder,
Cool and full and dim.
Everyone for what he likes!
We like to be
Heads down, tails up,
Dabbling free!
High in the blue above
Swifts whirl and call—
We are down a-dabbling
Up tails all!
by Kenneth Grahame
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