` Cut-cut-cut-ca-dar-cut ! ' ` Where is Peep ? ' asked Mrs. Cluck . ` Do n't know , ma . She ' -- there Peck stopped suddenly , rolled up her eyes , and began to stagger about as if she was tipsy . ` Mercy on us ! What 's the matter with the chick ? ' cried Mrs. Cluck , in great alarm . ` Fits , ma'am , ' answered Doctor Drake , who just then waddled by . ` Oh ! what can I do ? ' screamed the distracted hen . ` Nothing , ma'am ; it 's fatal . ' And the doctor waddled on to visit Dame Partlet 's son , who was ill of the pip . ` My child , my child ! do n't flap and stagger so ! Let me hold you ! Taste this mint-leaf ! Have a drop of water ! What shall I do ? '
As poor Mrs. XXXXX sighed and sobbed , her unhappy child went scuffling about on her back , gasping and rolling up her eyes in great anguish , for she had eaten too much of the fatal salt , and there was no help for her .
Cluck Cut-cut-cut-ca-dar-cut Drake Partlet Peck alarm doctor flap mint-leaf pip