He reached for a blank pad and sketched a little duckling with drops of water rolling off its back.

I'll be good to you, little duckling, everybody about here will tell you that; everybody but the children, they don't like me.'

Then Alma ran out and caught a little duckling, a soft little thing that looked like a ball of yellow cotton, and said:

They are the prettiest little Ducklings I have seen in all my days.

The poor little Duckling certainly had not a good time.

I was Ping the Little Duckling.

While we were nearing the shore, we sighted three little ducklings bobbing up and down in the tumbling waves and repeatedly diving.

HUNDREDS of cut little ducklings and goslings are hatching out daily in the Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre at Castle Espie in Comber.

The breakthrough came around age eight when she was was given a picture book, Ping, the Little Duckling, and read it from cover to cover.

As for the little ducklings, they paddled about, and quacked and whistled (as baby ducks always do) and had a perfectly lovely time.