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Show n daddy's mm ' fAIRYTAlE DUCK'S IMAGINATION. "Mrs. Duck," said Daddy, "was asleep with her head turned back and under one wing. She was also only on one foot. " 'The very Idea of being so uncomfortable,' un-comfortable,' said Miss Ham, who is the cousin of Brother Bacon and Pinky Pig. "Again Miss Ham spoke to her, In a high squealing voice: 'Why do you get in such an uncomfortable position?' posi-tion?' she asked. 'Grunt, grunt, grunt, why?' "Mrs. Duck pulled her head from under her wing and looked In front of her. She was still almost half asleep. " 'Oh, how do you do, Miss Ham,' she said, after a moment, when she had fully awakened. " T am well, thank you,' said Miss Ham. 'But I should think you'd be feeling poorly.' S " 'Oh, dear, oh, dear,' said Mrs. Duck. 'Feeling poorly did you say? Did I hear you quite clearly? You said I was feeling poorly? Oh dear, dear me, how terrible. I didn't know I wasn't well. But I must be ill yes, you think I am ill? You mean I look ill? Oh, what do you suppose is the matter with me? Quack, quack, quack. "Oh, Dear, Do Send for Doctor Frog." I am very much frightened. Really I cannot understand it. I must have had something, awful happen to me" when I was asleep.' " 'That's it,' said Miss Ham, 'it was when you were asleep.' " 'Oh, dear, do send for Doctor Frog I I hope I am going to recover.' " 'Listen I' squealed Miss Ham. 'You are not ill at all. You are only getting get-ting yourself all excited. Besides if I were In your place, which I am not because I am a pig and a pig can't be a duck, I wouldn't get worried because someone else thought you ill. And I didn't think it.' "'Oh, didn't you?' quacked Mrs. Duck, less excitedly. ".'No, I didn't,' grunted Miss Ham. 'And why should you believe me, anyway? any-way? If you fell ill you feel It that's all. But to get so excited because be-cause you understood me to say so. Can't you tell yourself?' " 'But I thought you said I looked so poorly. I thought I must be.' "'That's the trouble with-some animals ani-mals and folks,' said Miss Ham. 'They can imagine anything. They can even imagine they're ill 1 Why you would have sent for Doctor Frog in another moment. And just think how absurd you would have seemed when he told you there was absolutely nothing' the matter with you.' "'Well, what did you mean then?' asked Mrs. Duck. . " 'You were standing on one foot when you were asleep. I thought it must make you mighty uncomfortable. That's all.' " 'Oh,' quacked Mrs. Duck. 'That is he way I always sleep or at least it . the way I very often sleep. It's quite comfortable really for a duck to sleep that way. I don't see why I should always use both feet when one does just as well. It keeps me up. What more do I want?' " 'If that's your way I suppose It is all right,' said Miss 'Ham. "'Then don't frighten me like that again.' " 'I won't,' squealed Miss Ham. 'You may depend upon that. I never knew a duck could get so excited. And I really would advise you to feel ill before be-fore I would let anyone make you imagine im-agine it' "'I will In the future,' said Mrs. Duck. 'But I suppose it's a way many of us have. If our friends tell us we look well we. feel well, and if we think they don't consider that we look well then we feel ill. It's more or less manners I think.' " 'It's Imagination,' said Miss Ham. 'And never again Imagine you are 111. It only makes you miserable and It's so silly. I will never again tell yon that you look uncomfortable on one foot, now that I know you like one foot to stand on as well as two, three or four!'" |