Honk Lines
Its my Honk lines.
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- First line
- Drake! Drake! It's no good paddling away, I've seen you. And it doesn't do for a duck to look sheepish, it confuses the other animals.
- How's it going, Ida? You still sitting? I dunno, it's alright for some.
- Well if you like the sound of it so much why don't you take a turn on the nest? And wipe your webs! I just did the floor this morning.
- Oh Ida, I'd love to have a crack and sitting on the egss for a bit, but you look so comfortable up there it seems a shame to disturb you.
- Huh, and what about the extension you promised to build on the nest? It's going to be very cramped when the little ones arrive - especially with that one big egg in the clutch, goodness knows what size that chick is going to be.
- You know, I reckon it might be a turkey's egg.
- Oh, Drake!
- I had the same problem with my ex.
- Huh, here we go.
- We had a whole pack of troubles with the youngest ones I can tell you. They're afraid of the water. She had me running up and down the bank shouting "Frank Perdue" and they still wouldn't go in!
- Drake, how would a turkey egg get to be in my nest? Must be your side of the family.
- We'll just have to wait and see who he takes after, won't we, my dear.
- Yes, dear.
- Anyway, must fly. I promised the Rooster that I'd help him count his chickens. Shall I see you back here?
- Well where else do you suppose I'm going to be?
- Morning, Ida.
- Morning, Maureen.
- How is the mother to be?
- She'd be better if the father-who-was was better at being the father-who-is. Sometimes I think I'd have been better off pairing with a decoy.
- I'm sure Drake will make a marvelous dad when the family arrives.
- Not him. Duck my name and duck my nature - ducking out of all his responsibilities. Ooh. I say if butts were meant for sitting on eggs all day, then they should have been designed with big old dimples in them.
- Ooh, Ida, the very thought. How much longer do you have to go?
- Well, by my reckoning they should be out by now. I went to all of my pre-natal hatching classes, run by that self-satisfied stork, and she said about half a month, but two weeks is up.
- Oh well, the best things come to those who wait.
- I don't know. Why do we put ourselves through it? Every spring it's exactly the same.
- But just think of all the rewards - all those lovely little ducklings.
- All those beaks to feed.
- Waking you up at all hours.
- Getting into deep water.
- Attracting unwanted admirers...
- ...like the cat. Why do we put ourselves through it?
- Oh, Ida. They're the loveliest little ducklings I have ever set my eyes on. They're the image of their father.
- Thanks! Speaking of Daddy, Maureen would you be a dear and try to find him for me? He's probably making waves down at the local watering hole.
- I was getting well-cramped inside that egg.
- Don't go thinking that this is the whole world. It stretches far beyond the other side of the lake right into the churchyard - though I haven't been that far myself.
- Wicked - let's explore.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. There are one or two nest rules before you paddle off. Number one, no wet webbed-feet in the nest. Number two, you must feather your own nest every morning. Number three, no quacking after sunset. Number four, no plankton between meals; Number f...wait a minute, you're not all here.
- Hey guys, there's going to be another member of the gang.
- Oh, quack! And it's the big one.
- Hi, kids. I'm your dad.
- Take a good look at him because you probably won't see him that often. Well, true to form you missed it, the pitter-patter of petite paddles.
- Well I'm here now. OK, kids, who's for a swim? What's the matter? All that sitting around taken it out of you?
- There's still one to hatch, dumb-cluck. The big one.
- Come and teach the other ones to swim properly.
- You teach the other ones to swim properly