A ducks quack is made by a duck makeing a sound that reflects around it's beak, making a quack.
You cannot make a quack quack but you can say it.
The book it is included in on page 117 is Children's Stories published by Whitman Publishing, 1950, from Racine, Wisconsin.
She earned that nickname by her talkative and perky attitude. Her teacher gave her that name because she talked a lot in class. As a punishment he made her write an essay with the title "Quack,...
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