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A review by mat_tobin
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter
4.0
Jemima’s unfortunate life-choices would come to fruition during a particularly bountiful period of Potter’s writing. With members of the Cannon family, tenants of hers during her time at the village of Sawrey (in the Lake District), Jemima’s story is a tragic one but then she is exceptionally dim-witted.
Frustrated with the fact that she is not allowed to nest any of her own eggs on the farm, Jemima flies off into a nearby wood where she encounters a cunning fox who smoothly offers her a room next to his home as a nesting place. As a way of celebrating this relationship, the fox suggests that Jemima begin to collect ingredients for an omelette. She agrees, little realising that the vegetables and herbs she is gathering are the main ingredients for stuff duck.
Fortunately she informs the farm’s collie, Kep (Potter’s favourite sheepdog) of the events, and he gathers two fox-hound puppies to join him paying the trickster ‘a visit’. Whilst Jemima loses her eggs and a good slice of her dignity it doesn’t all end bad for she finds she allowed, eventually, to hatch her own eggs and we close with her waddling off with four chicks.
Frustrated with the fact that she is not allowed to nest any of her own eggs on the farm, Jemima flies off into a nearby wood where she encounters a cunning fox who smoothly offers her a room next to his home as a nesting place. As a way of celebrating this relationship, the fox suggests that Jemima begin to collect ingredients for an omelette. She agrees, little realising that the vegetables and herbs she is gathering are the main ingredients for stuff duck.
Fortunately she informs the farm’s collie, Kep (Potter’s favourite sheepdog) of the events, and he gathers two fox-hound puppies to join him paying the trickster ‘a visit’. Whilst Jemima loses her eggs and a good slice of her dignity it doesn’t all end bad for she finds she allowed, eventually, to hatch her own eggs and we close with her waddling off with four chicks.