diving duck

In the course of her remarkable travels Thecla baptizes herself by diving into a pool of “man-eating seals.”

It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.

It is interesting to notice a resemblance between this huge bird and our English wild duck or plover.

Rosemary, shy but happy, began giving out the toys, diving with both hands at once into the baskets which the fairy father held.

Alila has still another way of fishing which is not as hard work as diving, though, after all, it is not much fun.

Perhaps it was as well that she allowed such responsibilities to slip past her like water running off the feathers of a duck.