书城外语澳大利亚学生文学读本(第1册)
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Cheep! cheep! Oh, Mother, see this darling little chick!

Old Speck has ten of them.

There are seven black ones, and the rest are yellow. They are such darling little chicks!

I had a stick to get this black one from its mother.

I had to be so quick.

Speck gave me such a peck on the hand. See that big yellow one on the mother"s back. Did it say "Quack"?

Yes, it did.

Then it must be a ducking.

We must shut up the hen and her chicks in the shed.

Hickety, pickety, my black hen, She lays eggs for gentlemen,Sometimes nine and sometimes ten, Hickety, pickety, my black hen.