Our local park had a man-made lake about 2 feet deep. It had ducks in it. To get around on the lake, I thought the ducks' legs got really long and their feet walked on the bottom of the lake. I though they just folded their legs up under their feathers on land.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- I used to believe that dumplings were made from baby ducks. — Sarah
- I thought ducks couldn't fly - thats why they swam.— G
- i belived that ducks would take over the worldAnon
- i used to believe that dogs were furry midget who walked on for legs— doggy
- When I was little, I had tiny toes and beleived that ducks mistook them for kernels of corn and eat them.— Seguin