`` I had thoughts of entering public life once myself , '' remarked the Duck ; `` there are so many things that need reforming . Indeed , I took the chair at a meeting some time ago , and we passed resolutions condemning everything that we did not like . However , they did not seem to have much effect . Now I go in for domesticity , and look after my family . '' `` I am made for public life , '' said the Rocket , `` and so are all my relations , even the humblest of them . Whenever we appear we excite great attention . I have not actually appeared myself , but when I do so it will be a magnificent sight . As for domesticity , it ages one rapidly , and distracts one 's mind from higher things . '' `` Ah ! the higher things of life , how fine they are ! '' said the Duck ; `` and that reminds me how hungry I feel '' : and she swam away down the stream , saying , `` Quack , quack , quack . '' `` Come back ! come back ! '' screamed the Rocket , `` I have a great deal to say to you '' ; but the Duck paid no attention to him . `` I am glad that she has gone , '' he said to himself , `` she has a decidedly middle-class mind '' ; and he sank a little deeper still into the mud , and began to think about the loneliness of genius , when suddenly two little boys in white smocks came running down the bank , with a kettle and some faggots . `` This must be the deputation , '' said the Rocket , and he tried to look very dignified . `` Hallo ! '' cried one of the boys , `` look at this old stick ! I wonder how it came here '' ; and he picked the rocket out of the ditch . `` OLD Stick ! ''
said the XXXXX , `` impossible !
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