Rebecca Puddleduck

Question 1

…trouble than I could know. What if she has decided she’s done with a bad rabbit like me? I… I don’t know if I’m ready to hear that. I can’t go home…not yet.(Peter Rabbit Exits)

Answer 1

What’s got your tail-feathers in a twist today, Jemima Puddle-duck?

Question 2

Oh, it’s just the rotten farmer’s wife, again.

Answer 2

What about her? I think she is lovely.

Question 3

Well I don’t, Rebeccah! I want to lay my eggs and hatch them, but the farmer’s wife steals them away from me and cooks them for her family! I want my own family… well…other family besides you, sister-in-law. I want to raise my own little ducklings.

Answer 3

Speak for yourself, I’m glad she takes my eggs. That way, I don’t have to spend 28 days sitting on them.

Question 4

Oh, cut that out you silly bird! We have enough ducklings on the farm as it is, we don’t need anymore. Be a good girl and take this corn in exchange.

Answer 4

Come on, Jemima! Let’s go to the puddle for a swim, or waddle around in the field. Something to get your mind off of things.

Question 5

No, no. I will not have anymore of this farm. I will not tolerate the Farmer’s Wife stealing anymore of my babies! I must leave straight away and go somewhere else… somewhere else to lay my eggs and hatch them.

Answer 5

Now where on earth would that be?

Question 6

I don’t know. Somewhere safe… somewhere like… the woods! Just over yonder there are woods! I could go there to lay my eggs.

Answer 6

Jemima, don’t you know? Every duck says the woods are a dangerous place to go. Even the farmer himself avoids the woods at all costs!

Question 7

Oh please, anywhere that’s not near the farmer’s wife is safe for my eggs.

Answer 7

But what about you?

Question 8

I’ll be fine! I’ll return in two month’s time, accompanied by all of the new little ones of the Puddle-duck family.

Answer 8

Good luck, Jemima. You’ll need it.