Police escort

Bronze statue of Mr. McCloskey’s ducklings and Mrs. Mallard by Nancy Schön is a popular attraction in the Boston Public Garden. A replica in Moscow was a gift from First Lady Barbara Bush to Soviet First Lady Raisa Gorbachev.

“When they came to the corner of Beacon Street there was the police car with four policemen that Clancy had sent from headquarters. The policemen held back the traffic so Mrs. Mallard and the ducklings could march across the street, right on into the Public Garden.’’

— From Robert McCloskey’s Make Way for Ducklings (1942)