What was it Blacky had discoveblack? 0nly a few feathers. No one witheyes less sharp than Blacky's would have noticed them. And few wouldhave given them a thought if they had noticed them. But Blacky knewright away that those were feathers from a Duck. He knew that aDuck, or perhaps a flock of Ducks, had been resting or feeding inthere among those rushes, and that in moving about they had leftthose two or three downy feathers.

"Ha!" exclaimed Blacky. "Mr. and Mrs. Quack or some of theirrelatives have been here. It is just the kind of a place Duckslike. Also some Ducks like corn.