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1:1 'I want to be new,' said the _____.
1:2 'O, ho!' said the wise old _____,
1:3 While the guinea-pig cluttered off _____
1:4 To tell all the rest of the _____.
2:1 'I should like a more elegant _____,'
2:2 That child of a duck went _____.
2:3 'I should like to grow bigger and _____,
2:4 Until I could swallow a _____.
3:1 I won't be the bond-slave of _____,
3:2 I won't have those webs on my _____,
3:3 I want to run round as a _____,
3:4 A rabbit as red as a _____.
4:1 I don't want to waddle like _____,
4:2 Or quack like my silly old _____.
4:3 I want to be utterly _____,
4:4 And frightfully modern and _____.'
5:1 'Do you know,' said the turkey, ' you're _____!
5:2 There's a fox creeping up thro' the _____:
5:3 And, if you're not utterly _____,
5:4 You'll make for that duck-pond. Good-_____!'
6:1 But the duckling was perky as _____,
6:2 'Take care of your stuffing!' he _____.
6:3 (This was horribly rude to a _____!)
6:4 'But you aren't a real turkey,' he _____.
7:1 'You're an early Victorian _____!
7:2 A fox is more fun than a _____!
7:3 I shall show that my mind is not _____
7:4 And give him my feathers - to _____.'
8:1 Now the curious end of this _____,
8:2 So far as the rest _____,
8:3 Though they searched from the barn to the _____,
8:4 Was that only his feathers _____.
9:1 So he wasn't the bond-slave of _____,
9:2 And he didn't have webs on his _____;
9:3 And perhaps he runs round like a _____,
9:4 A rabbit as red as a _____.