The
Quiet Duck
by Wendy Toy
The quiet duck could swim, but
she could not quack.
“But a duck must quack,” said Mama Duck.
“Crawl under Grandma’s quilt. It will
warm your
throat warm and you will quack.”
The quiet duck grew quite warm under the quilt.
“Please take off the quilt, Mama,” the quiet duck
moaned.
“Can you quack now?” asked Mama Duck.
The quiet duck opened her mouth. No
quack came out.
“My quack will not work,” cried the quiet duck.
Grandma Duck came to visit.
“I brought hot soup for you,” said Grandma Duck.
“It will help you quack.”
The quiet duck tasted the soup.
“It’s quite good,” she said.
She opened her mouth, but no quack came out.
The quiet duck sobbed.
The quiet duck’s brother handed her a box.
“Eat one of these and you will quack like a queen,” he told
her.
The quiet duck reached into the box. She popped something into her
mouth.
“Quack, quack,” she said. “I can quack!”
“What is in that box?” asked
Mama Duck.
The not-so-quiet duck grinned.
“Saltine quackers!"
How
many "qu" words?
There are 29 "qu" words
in the story, 30 "qu" words if you count the title.
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