The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck
"Ah! Is that so? Indeed!" said the gentleman with sandy whiskers, looking curiously at Jemima.
The first farm that Beatrix Potter owned was called Hill Top and she used it and its Lakeland surroundings in The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. Jemima was a real Hill Top duck who wasn't good at hatching eggs and Beatrix Potter's favourite sheepdog, Kep, features as the wise friend who rescues Jemima from the deceptively charming sandy-whiskered gentleman.
Beatrix Potter loved the countryside and she spent much of her otherwise conventional Victorian childhood drawing and studying animals. Her passion for the natural world lay behind the creation of her famous series of little books. A particular source of inspiration was the English Lake District where she lived for the last thirty years of her life as a farmer and land conservationist.
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