sense of what is right and fair into his head, but of course it
didn't."

He grinned at the idea, and then he continued his way towards the
Smiling Pool. He hoped he might find another Duck there, and he
approached the Smiling Pool very, very carefully.

But when he reached a point where he could see all over the Smiling
Pool, there was no one to be seen save Jerry Muskrat sitting on
the Big Rock and Peter Rabbit on the bank on the other side. Farmer
Brown's boy smiled when he saw them. "Hello, Jerry Muskrat!" said
he. "I wonder how a bite of carrot would taste to you." He felt
in his pocket and brought out a couple of carrots. One he put on
a little tussock in the water where he knew Jerry would find it.
The other he tossed across the Smiling Pool where he felt sure Peter
would find it. Presently he noticed two or three feathers on the
water close to the edge of the bank. Mrs. Quack had left them there.
"I believe that was a Mallard Duck," said he, as he studied them.
"I know what I'll do. I'll go straight back home and get some wheat
and corn and put it here on the edge of the Smiling Pool. Perhaps
she will come back and find it."

And this is just what Farmer Brown's boy did.




VII

MRS. QUACK RETURNS