The poem opens with a conversation between the duck and the kangaroo. The duck admires the kangaroo for the way it hops. The duck feels bored of his life in the pond. The duck, therefore, requests the kangaroo to give it a ride on his back. The duck also promises that it would not say anything except “quack.” The duck wanted to see the entire world.
The kangaroo reflects on what the duck had said and thinks that this might bring him some luck. However, he had one objection. The kangaroo believed that the duck’s wet and cold feet might cause some problem to the kangaroo. It was possible that he might get unwell because it.
The duck offers a quick solution to the problem raised by the kangaroo. The duck told him that he already bought four pairs of socks and a cloak to keep away the cold. Also, the duck said that he would daily smoke a cigar to keep himself warm.
Hearing this, the kangaroo agrees to the duck’s idea and both of them rejoice. The kangaroo asked the duck to sit in a steady manner and balanced him properly. And then went round seeing the world in complete happiness.
Class 9
Once a Duck wondered how a Kangaroo could hop. She wished if she could also go out of the pond and hop around like the Kangaroo. The Duck requested the Kangaroo to give her a ride on his back. She promised that she would sit quiet and say nothing but quack. She suggested that they would go to the ‘Dee’ and the ‘Jelly Bo Lee’.
The Kangaroo agreed but said that her feet were unpleasantly wet and cold and he would get sick if she sat on his back. The Duck told him that she had bought four pairs of socks and a cloak to protect him from cold. She, out of her love for the Kangaroo, had also decided to smoke a cigar every day.
The Kangaroo agreed and was now ready to take the Duck on ride. He asked the Duck to sit firmly on the end of his tail. They went with a hop and a bound. They hoped the whole world three times round. They enjoyed the trip and became happy.