real-water-wet

Updated: May 3, 2025

So now the children went on through the wood more quickly and comfortably, the girls picking flowers and the Lamb inviting the 'pretty dickies' to observe that he himself was a 'little white real-water-wet duck! And all this time he hadn't whooping-coughed once.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - The Phoenix and the Carpet