MIGHT I add my little story to Elsie Collinge's tale (Letters, August 30) of the funny things children say?

While I was planting a few cuttings in the garden, my little neighbour pushed a feather in as well.

When I asked her why, she said: "Well, we'll get a duck, won't we?"

G ROBERTS, Tanpits Road, Church.

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