Everyone was having a lovely time catching minnows.
“Look!” said Murph. “A Mummy duck and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 babies!
How sweet.”
One of the ducklings was very slow. Lydia was worried that he
might get left behind, or maybe he might get lost in the reeds.
She wanted to follow the ducklings, to make sure that they were
okay. Noticing that Susie was busy chatting to Mark, Lydia
snuck off up the river to follow the ducks.
Lydia began to sing “Five little ducks went swimming one day,
over the hill and faraway...”
She turned the bend in the river and caught sight of something
yellow in a clump of river weed. “Oh no! The poor duckling!”
cried Lydia.
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