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" Gammon , ha , HA ? " said the doctor . " I am feeling very much better , " said Duchess , waking up with a jump . " I am truly glad to hear it ! " He has brought you a pill , my dear Duchess ! " " I think I should feel QUITE well if he only felt my pulse , " said Duchess , backing away from the magpie , who sidled up with something in his beak . " It is only a bread pill , you had much better take it ; drink a little milk , my dear Duchess ! " " Gammon ? Gammon ? " said the doctor , while Duchess coughed and choked . " Don't say that again ! " said Ribby , losing her temper — " Here , take this bread and jam , and get out into the yard ! " " Gammon and spinach ! ha ha HA ! " shouted Dr . Maggotty triumphantly outside the back door . " I am feeling very much better , my dear Ribby , " said Duchess . " Do you not think that I had better go home before it gets dark ? " " Perhaps it might be wise , my dear Duchess . I will lend you a nice warm shawl , and you shall take my arm . " " I would not trouble you for worlds ; I feel wonderfully better . One pill of Dr . Maggotty — — " " Indeed it is most admirable , if it has cured you of a patty - pan ! I will call directly after breakfast to ask how you have slept . " Ribby and Duchess said good - bye affectionately , and Duchess started home . Half - way up the lane she stopped and looked back ; Ribby had gone in and shut her door . Duchess slipped through the fence , and ran round to the back of Ribby's house , and peeped into the yard . Upon the roof of the pig - stye sat Dr . Maggotty and three jackdaws . The jackdaws were eating pie - crust , and the magpie was drinking gravy out of a patty - pan . " Gammon , ha , HA ! " he shouted when he saw Duchess's little black nose peeping round the corner . Duchess ran home feeling uncommonly silly ! When Ribby came out for a pailful of water to wash up the tea - things , she found a pink and white pie - dish lying smashed in the middle of the yard . The patty - pan was under the pump , where Dr Maggotty had considerately left it . Ribby stared with amazement — " Did you ever see the like ! so there really WAS a patty - pan ? … . But my patty - pans are all in the kitchen cupboard . Well I never did ! … . Next time I want to give a party — I will invite Cousin Tabitha Twitchit ! " THE END THE TALE OF JEMIMA PUDDLE - DUCK A FARMYARD TALE FOR RALPH AND BETSY WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen ! — Listen to the story of Jemima Puddle - duck , who was annoyed because the farmer's wife would not let her hatch her own eggs . HER sister - in - law , Mrs . Rebeccah Puddle - duck , was perfectly willing to leave the hatching to some one else — " I have not the patience to sit on a nest for twenty - eight days ; and no more have you , Jemima . You would let them go cold ; you know you would ! "
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