        item: #1 of 10
          id: 14814
      author: Potter, Beatrix
       title: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
        date: None
       words: 1377
      flesch: 84
     summary: Where do you go every afternoon by yourself, Jemima Puddle-duck? Jemima was rather in awe of the collie; she told him the whole story. [Illustration] 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.
    keywords: illustration; jemima
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        item: #2 of 10
          id: 15280
      author: Garis, Howard Roger
       title: Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble
        date: None
       words: 38395
      flesch: 95
     summary: Also there were the children ducks; Jimmie Wibblewobble and his two sisters, Lulu and Alice. In fact they were very stylish ducks, and once Jimmie Wibblewobble even rode in an automobile, but I can't tell you about that now, because you see I am going to relate to you how Lulu was caught fast in the mud.
    keywords: alice; billie; boy; bully; duck; fairy; good; grandfather; home; jimmie; little; lulu; mamma; pond; prince; right; story; time; water; wibblewobble
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        item: #3 of 10
          id: 18884
      author: Hines, Bob
       title: Ducks at a Distance: A Waterfowl Identification Guide
        date: None
       words: 3457
      flesch: 81
     summary: Greater scaup prefer large open water areas; lesser scaup often use marshes and ponds. They are more vocal than most ducks--their high-pitched peeping and nasal quacking is commonly heard in spring and to a lesser extent in fall.
    keywords: drakes; ducks; flight; flocks; flyway; hens; lbs; species
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        item: #4 of 10
          id: 22055
      author: Unknown
       title: Dame Duck's First Lecture on Education
        date: None
       words: 630
      flesch: 92
     summary: One peeped out from beneath her wing, One scrambled on her back: That's very rude, said old Dame Duck, Get off! Let me swim first, said old Dame Duck, To this side, now to that; There, snap at those great brown-winged flies, They make young ducklings fat.
    keywords: dame; duck
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        item: #5 of 10
          id: 26650
      author: Fire-Fly, Fanny
       title: The Ducks and Frogs, a Tale of the Bogs.
        date: None
       words: 1624
      flesch: 88
     summary: Said he, it makes my blood run cold, To see young folks so smart and bold. [Illustration] Just at this moment, up there sprung A Frog quite pert, for one so young; Said he, I vote for emigration, 'Twill save us all this botheration!
    keywords: ducks; friends; frogs; illustration
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        item: #6 of 10
          id: 28686
      author: Oates, W. Coape
       title: Wild Ducks: How to Rear and Shoot Them
        date: None
       words: 12551
      flesch: 73
     summary: The latter will bring on young birds quicker than anything. The debit side of the account will now work out as follows:-- Food for ducklings Â£16 0 0 Food for old birds 4 13 9 Extra food alluded to above 0 15 0 Expenses for sitting hens 1 0 0 --------- Â£22 8 9 As against these figures there are 250 young ducks for sale: deduct from this number fifteen for casualties of various kinds, such as dead birds unpicked at the shoot, odd birds that may stray and be killed, &c., and this gives 235.
    keywords: birds; day; ducks; eggs; food; guns; hens; nest; number; time; water
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        item: #7 of 10
          id: 33029
      author: Slocum, Rob R. (Rob Roy)
       title: Ducks and Geese
        date: None
       words: 59161
      flesch: 78
     summary: The cost of maintaining them will not be great and they will not only provide a most acceptable variety in the form of duck meat and duck eggs for the farmers' table but they will also produce a surplus which can be sold at a profit. A few ventures of this sort seem to have been successful but it must be remembered that the market for duck eggs is not nearly so broad as that for hens' eggs and that in some quarters there exists considerable prejudice against duck eggs for table consumption.
    keywords: birds; breeders; breeding; breeding ducks; breeds; brooder; color; drake; duck eggs; ducklings; ducks; eggs; farms; fattening; feathers; feed; feeding; geese; good; goose; goose eggs; goslings; hatching; house; industry; market; size; time; water; white; yards
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        item: #8 of 10
          id: 38467
      author: Rankin, James
       title: Natural and Artificial Duck Culture
        date: None
       words: 40413
      flesch: 80
     summary: The majority of people have the impression that water to bathe in is essential to secure fertility in duck eggs, but it is a great mistake. Doubtless everyone knows that an incubator, different from other machines, must run three weeks continually night and day, (and when filled with duck eggs, four weeks,) and preserve an even temperature all the while.
    keywords: birds; breeding; building; business; cent; day; days; ducklings; ducks; eggs; end; feed; feet; food; good; hatch; heat; machine; market; poultry; question; rankin; size; thing; time; water; weeks; yards; young
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        item: #9 of 10
          id: 38995
      author: Miller, Thomas
       title: The Sheep and Lamb
        date: None
       words: 6956
      flesch: 89
     summary: He was a kind-hearted man; for as soon as the lamb entered the cottage it went up to him, and as he patted its pretty head, he sighed heavily, for he felt almost as much troubled at parting with it as did little Johnny. Please, sir, he doesn't know that butcher Page didn't take away Johnny's lamb in the cart, said Polly, rushing to the rescue, because we kept it in the little croft, and drove Charley's lamb out instead, for little Johnny had been crying so all day that it made us all sorry to see it.
    keywords: charley; duckling; johnny; lamb; price; sheep; vol; vols
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        item: #10 of 10
          id: 62685
      author: Howard, George E. (George Ellsworth)
       title: Ducks and Geese: Standard Breeds and Management
        date: None
       words: 17947
      flesch: 80
     summary: 14 and 15 are shown two more designs of duck houses, which are practical and cheap, and may be built singly or in rows for a number of pens. Other ducks are judged for practical qualities by the Pekin.
    keywords: birds; black; brown; color; dark; ducks; feathers; fig; geese; gray; house; plumage; pounds; water; white; young
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