This delightfully soft and amusing set of toys is suitable for the very tiny tot or the older child. The birds are as soft as cotton wool can make them, this being used for the filling, or kapok, if preferred. The colour scheme is charming—creamy or white bodies, yellow bills and feet, and a blue or orange bonnet on dear old Mother Duck. The articles are knitted and then shaped up with the stuffing.

Materials Required.—3oz. 4-ply fingering in white, ½oz. in yellow, ½oz. in orange, ½oz. any colour liked for bonnet, a thread of black wool, and a thread of brown. One pair of needles, No. 8, one pair of No. 14, a bone crochet hook.