Destructive Savior: While the fox-hound puppies do play a crucial role in helping the farm collie chase away the predatory fox, they immediately eat all of Jemima's eggs upon being let into the fox's cabin.Death of a Child: After the fox is chased off, Jemima's eggs get promptly eaten by the fox-hound puppies who helped save her.Cunning Like a Fox: The sandy-whiskered gentleman, although he didn't have to try very hard given how ditzy Jemima is.Tod, as the wooden Summer house of the Fox is later seen in The Tale of Mr Tod, and the Winter house the Fox mentioned is in the Earth, and Mr Tod’s Winter house is also in the Earth. It’s safe to presume that the Fox was Mr. The Cameo: The Fox here is very similar to Mr.However, she gets to raise her next batch of eggs.

Bittersweet Ending: The dogs rescue Jemima from the foxy gentleman, but they also eat all of her eggs.Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The sandy-whiskered man is a perfect gentleman who generously offers Jemima a place to lay her eggs and brings her food so that she doesn't have to leave her nest, because he wants to eat her and her eggs.Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Jemima lays her eggs in a huge pile of feathers and down in the fox's shed-feathers which could only have come from other unfortunate fowl who met their ends as the fox's earlier victims.Battle Discretion Shot: At the end of the story, Kep, the farm collie, and two fox-hound puppies from the nearby village attack and chase off the fox, but Jemima and the reader only hear the fight and see nothing of it from within the locked shed.Babies Ever After/ Earn Your Happy Ending: In the end, Jemima does get to keep and raise several eggs, of which four ducklings survive.Affably Evil: Jemima's sandy-whiskered 'friend' is unfailingly polite, even when implying that he'd like to eat Jemima's rival, the hen.An Aesop: Don't judge people by their superficial appearances, and if a stranger randomly offers you help, he might have a nefarious ulterior motive.Jemima hatches a plan to lay some eggs at a secret location away from the farm and receives assistance from a generous sandy-whiskered gentleman, who may not be quite as altruistic as he seems. Jemima Puddle-Duck wants nothing more than to raise her own brood of ducklings unfortunately, the humans running the farm where she lives always take her eggs away and give them to a hen to raise. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a children's book by Beatrix Potter.

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