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<\/a>Five little ducks
\nWent out one day
\nOver the hill and far away
\nMother duck said
\n\u201cQuack, quack, quack, quack.\u201d
\nBut only four little ducks came back.<\/p>\n
Where is my ducking
\nShe did say
\nOver the hill and far away
\nMother duck said
\nQuack quack quack
\nI’ll be gone to find him, but will be back<\/p>\n
Mother duck, mother duck
\nWent one day
\nOver the hill and far away
\nMother duck in horror
\nShe did quack
\nThe fox got her duckling
\nTo the others she must get back<\/p>\n
Mother duck mother duck
\nRaced back that day
\nBack over the hill from far away
\nIn heartbroken horror she did quack
\nThe fox got her other duckings
\nBefore she got back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As part of the #twistednurseryrhyme challenge from “Pandora’s Box of Horrors” and “We PAW Bloggers” groups on Facebook, where a nursery rhyme is reworked to a morbid plot… Your #twistednurseryrhyme for today… Five little ducks Went out one day Over the hill and far away Mother duck said \u201cQuack, quack, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[376,232,4054],"tags":[4221,4218,4220,4219],"class_list":["post-4545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-poems-18","category-nature-2","category-rhymes-for-kids","tag-mother-duck","tag-nursery-rhyme","tag-pandoras-box","tag-reworked-nursery-rhyme","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1bj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1143,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/poem-for-a-nyeuck\/","url_meta":{"origin":4545,"position":0},"title":"Poem for a Nyeuck","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"16th November 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A smart word for everyone And for strangers a disparaging look He sits making himself heard to all With a skit, hes known as the nyeuck. 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