![]() ![]() Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Jemima lays her eggs in a huge pile of feathers and down in the fox's shed-feathers which could only have come from other unfortunate fowl who met their ends as the fox's earlier victims.Battle Discretion Shot: At the end of the story, Kep, the farm collie, and two fox-hound puppies from the nearby village attack and chase off the fox, but Jemima and the reader only hear the fight and see nothing of it from within the locked shed.Babies Ever After/ Earn Your Happy Ending: In the end, Jemima does get to keep and raise several eggs, of which four ducklings survive.Affably Evil: Jemima's sandy-whiskered "friend" is unfailingly polite, even when implying that he'd like to eat Jemima's rival, the hen.An Aesop: Don't judge people by their superficial appearances, and if a stranger randomly offers you help, he might have a nefarious ulterior motive.Jemima hatches a plan to lay some eggs at a secret location away from the farm and receives assistance from a generous sandy-whiskered gentleman, who may not be quite as altruistic as he seems. Jemima Puddle-Duck wants nothing more than to raise her own brood of ducklings unfortunately, the humans running the farm where she lives always take her eggs away and give them to a hen to raise. ![]() The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a children's book by Beatrix Potter. ![]()
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