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know what he fed un on ator a left we but a'd got sa chaice then as 

 a'd ardly yet anything but bred un butter. The last I yeared the 

 poor cretur wus as a'd died a very pertty pig a about a fourteen score. 



Now thems what I considers very interesting hannygotes of a 

 dimestic pig but them ther ducks wus 2 sech ducks as you don't 

 see evry de barring as 1 on um wus a dreck. 



Tha wus Mus-covys un wus give ta me by Dr. Wells a Nordon 

 I never seed 2 kinder harted creeters in my life Tha meed ther- 

 selves at homo as soon as ever tha cum to us un after a bit tha got 

 sa fond on us as wenever me or my missis went ta tha pump (not 

 having no piece a water for um dy see) thay'd run jabberin up un 

 woodn't let us go away or be at quiet tul weed pumped on um un 

 geed um a good dousin un then thayd go in a doors un lay ther- 

 selves down afore the fire to dry un if we offered for to go away 

 from the pump without doing on it for um thayd run ater us un 

 peck our legs un heels a good un. la got one on um now — the 

 dreek— but Ime sorry to say as I lost tother about 12 Mos ago 

 un you never see nothin more affectin nor the last moments o that 

 ther duck. 



Some time afore — some wicked rascal of a dog — how I wish I'd 



a ketched him ony praps I shoold a sarved him amost too bad — 



geed er a tightish nip 1 de un thow with a good deal a nussin un 



coddlin my missis brought im round again un a was got quite 



cheerful like a allis walked leem un limped a good deal un didnt 



seem to injay hisself so well as formyly. Ater a bit a wuzn't so 



well agyan un seemed uz if there was summut az wazn't quite 



right in her inside. "Well now my wife ad bin verry queer fur a 



wick or 2 with a bad complaint in her chest un one de tha duck 



seemed wuss nor ushal if anything un my wife was a nussin on 



her in her lap afore the fire un a seemed very thoughtful un all at 



once her says says her "I say Jem if I was to give the poor duck 



a dose a my medsan" says her "I shoodn't wonder if it didn't do 



un good for it have certnly done me a good deal " says her. And 



so " Well" says I "praps 'tood. Ime agreeable" says I an so wo 



geed un two teble spoonfuls a tha chest mixter. "Well the poor 



creeter shook his hed un didn't seem to like it for a bit but at last 



a got quieter un seemed to be agwain off to sleep un all at once 



after a'd a layd quiet for about a ten minutes a tried to rouse isself 



up like un begun ta sheek is yed agean as if to say az twus no go— 



a give a fayntish queevering kind of a quack un then a looked up in 



my missisess feece un died in a minnit. Now thats I considers a 



very interestin annygote of a Muscovy duck an its my firm belief as 



thercs very few people as knows what affection dimestic animals 



may be brought to for um for want a treetin on um properly but all 



as Ive got to say about it is this here which is as if its of any use 



to you or the Cotsuld club as its verry much at your service un I 



remain Sir 



Tour humble servant to command 



JEEMS NICKS. 

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