E it was so glorious out in the country. It was summer, the grain was yellow, green oats, hay piled up on the green meadows in stacks, and the stork went about on his long red legs chattered in the Egyptian, since the language he had learned from his mother. were surrounded by the fields and the meadows are large forests and deep in the forests, lakes. Yes, it was really delightful to walk in the countryside! Located in the sunny spot stood an old farmhouse, surrounded by deep channels; and the wall to the water side grew great burdock leaves, which were so high that little children could stand upright under the tallest of it was as wild as the deepest forest. Here is a duck sitting on her nest, which had hatched their young, but she was almost boring, until the boys came. And she seldom had visited, and the other ducks were swimming around in the canals rather than that they ran up to sit under a burdock leaf, to have a gossip with her.
E RURAL burst one egg at a time;! "Peep, peep!" said it, and each egg came alive and put their heads out. "Quack Quack!" and the mother wanted to let them look as much as they, because green is good for the eyes, she said, and then they all quacked as they could, and saw on every side at the green leaves.
"W ie large the world is!" said all the boys, because now they had much more room than they were inside the egg. "Do you think that this is the whole world?" said their mother, "which extends far beyond the other side of the garden, straight into the parson's field, but I've never been!" - "Are you all together?" she continued and stood up. "No, I do not have all, the largest egg still lies there;! Is how long will it take now I'm quite tired of" and so she sits down again.
"Well, how are you?" asked an old Duck who had come to pay her a visit. "It lasts a long time with one egg!" said the Duck who sat there, it will not burst, but just look at all the others, it is not the prettiest little ducklings you ever saw? They are the image of their father, the villain does not come to visit me "
" L ass me see the egg, which will not burst. "! said the old woman. "Believe me, it's a turkey's egg I've been once, and after all my care and trouble with the young ones, they were afraid of the water I could not bring in;! I was rapping and get them to did not help. Let me see the egg! Yes, this is a turkey's egg! Let this lie and teach the other children to swim. "
"I ch will still sit on it a bit," said the duck; ". I've now been sitting for so long, I can sit for a few days" at will "said the old duck and walked away from.
E RURAL the large egg. "Peep, peep!" said the boy and crawled out. It was very big and ugly! The Duck looked at it, "It is very large and duckling," she said, "I wonder if it really is a" Can it really be a kalikultisches chickens Well, figure it out, we shall soon, in the water it needs to do? I have to push myself. "
A m next day was beautiful, beautiful weather and the sun shone on the green burdock. The mother duck took her young brood down to the channel. Splash! as they jumped into the water. "Quack Quack!" she said, and one duckling after another plumped inside, the water hit them over their heads, but they came right back up and swam very gorgeous, and the legs went of themselves, and they were all in the water, even the ugly, gray boy swam with.
"N one, it's not a turkey's," she said, "Look how well he uses his legs as just holding it, it's my own child Basically, it's quite! pretty, if you look at him right Rapp Rapp come with me, I will lead you into the great world, and introduce you to the farmyard,.! but you must keep close to me, so you no one does, and take you from the cats in eight! "
U nd they came into the farmyard. Inside was a terrible noise, because there were two families who are bitten by an eel's head, and finally got it but the cat ..
! S eht, that is the way in the world, "said the mother duck, whetting her beak, for she would have liked the eel's head!" Does your legs now, "she said;" see that you can rattle you, and bend your neck in front of the old duck there, which is the noblest of all here and it is of English descent, so it is do thick, and you see she has a red rag around the Leg, which is something very grand, and the greatest honor for a duck can be given. This means so much that they can not lose her, that they are recognized by man and beast! Come, now! Set your toes do not, a well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like father and mother, look this way; . Now bend your neck and says Rapp
nd U so did they, but the other duck stared, and said loudly: "Look! Now we should still have the notes, as if there were not enough of us already! And ugh! As a queer looking, ! Want that we do not tolerate. "And immediately flew out and bit him in the neck," Let it go, "said the mother." Doing it so nothing to anyone "" Yes, but it is too big and ugly, " said the biting duck ". and therefore it must be popped"
"E s are very pretty children, the mother," said the old duck with the rag on her leg, "all but except for one: this is not successful;. I want that could improve it "" That is impossible, your grace, "replied the mother," it is not pretty, but it has a very good disposition, and swims as wonderful say like one of the others, yes, I may be slightly better. I think he will grow up pretty, and perhaps be smaller;! It has remained too long in the egg, and therefore not get the right shape "and then she stroked his neck and smoothed the feathers." It is a drake "she said," and therefore it does not matter so much. I think he will grow up strong. He beats his way through already "
" D ie other ducklings are graceful enough, "said the old woman," Now make as if you were at home, and find an eel's head, so you can bring it to me. "And now they were home.
But the poor Duckling which had crept out of the last egg, and looked so ugly, was bitten and pushed and made fun of, not only by the ducks as by the chickens. "It's too big!" all said and kalikultische cock, who had been the world with spurs, and fancied that he was emperor, puffed himself out like a vessel in full sail, and flew to the same thing, then he and became quite red in the head. The poor Duckling did not know where it should go, and it was so sad because it looked ugly and was mocked by the whole farmyard.
S o it was the first day, and later it was worse and worse. The poor duckling was driven by all, even his brothers and sisters were unkind to him and always said: "If the cat would get you, you ugly creature!" And the mother said: "If you were only far away!" The ducks pecked him, the chickens beat him, and the girl who fed the poultry kicked him with her feet.
D a ran it flew over the fence, the little birds in the bushes flew up in alarm. "This happens because I'm so ugly," thought the duckling and closed his eyes ran, but nevertheless further, it came out to the large moor, inhabited by wild ducks. Here he remained the whole night, feeling very tired and sorrowful.
G egen morning flew to the wild ducks, and they stared at their new comrade. "What are you kind?" they asked, and the Duckling turned in every direction, and bowed as best he could.
"D u are very ugly!" said the wild ducks, "but that will not matter if you just do not marry one of our family." Poor thing! It did not really think of marriage, if it is only the could get permission to lie among the reeds and drink some water on the moor.
S o it was two whole days, as two wild geese, or rather wild geese got there, it was not long ago that they were out of the egg, which is why they were so bold .
"H ore comrade!" they said, "you're so ugly that I like you very well; Will you go and migratory be far from here is another moor, in it are some pretty wild geese, lady, all?" Rapp can say! ". You are able to make your fortune there, you're ugly too! "
" P iff ! Pop, "sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead among the reeds, and the water was blood red." Piff! Paff - rang again, and whole flocks of wild geese rose up from the reeds. And then it popped again. It was great hunt, the sportsmen surrounded the moor, and yes, some were sitting up in the tree branches that stretched out far beyond the reeds. The blue smoke rose like clouds over the dark trees, and far across the water, Moore came to the hounds. Splash, splash, the reed and the pipe bent in all directions. That was terrified the poor duckling. It turned her head to him under his wing, but at that moment a frightful great dog stood close to the duckling, the tongue hung him long from his mouth and his eyes glowed grayish ugly, and he stuck his nose close to the duckling exactly contrary, showed him the sharp teeth and - - splash, splash! He went back, without touching it.
"O Thank God!" sighed the duckling, "I am so ugly that bite me not even a dog!" And so he lay quite still, while the shot rattled through the rushes and shot fired over him.
E rst late in the day it was quiet, but the poor young thing did not to rise, it waited several hours before she looked around, and then hastened away from the moor as fast as he could. He ran over field and meadow till a storm that he was hard to come by the office.
G egen evening, he reached a poor little cottage that was so dilapidated that they themselves did not know yet which side they should fall, and so she stopped. The storm roared round the Duckling in such a way that it had to sit down, to dagegenzustemmen, and it got worse and worse. Because it noticed that the door was gone from a fishing and so askew that it could slip through the crack in the room, and it did.
H ere a woman lived with her cat and her hen. The tom cat, whom she called "son" could make a great favorite, he sprayed sparks but even then you had to remove him from the hair. The hen had very short legs, so it was called "Chickie short legs" called. She laid good eggs, and the woman she loved like her own child. In the morning, the strange visitor duckling; and the cat began to purr and the hen to cluck.
" W hat is it?" the woman said, looking round the room, but she did not look good, so she believed that the Duckling was a fat duck that had strayed. "That's a prize!" she said. "Now I have some duck eggs. If it's just not a drake, I must wait."
U nd so the Duckling was taken on trial for three weeks, but there were no eggs. And the Lord was in the house cat, and the hen was mistress, and they always said: "We and the world" Because they believed that they were the half, and Although by far the best half. The duckling thought that others might hold a different opinion, but that did not suffer from the hen. "Can you lay eggs?" she asked. "No!" "Well, then you will have the goodness to remain silent!"
U nd the Cat said, "If you can purr a crooked bosses, and sparks?" "No!" "Then you have no opinion when sensible people are speaking!" And the Duckling sat in the corner and was in a bad mood. Since fell for the fresh air and sunshine, and it got such strange desire to float on the water that it could not fail, this is the hen to say.
"W as you thinking?" asked. "You have nothing to do, therefore you have foolish fancies! Purr or lay eggs, they pass away." "But it's so nice to swim on the water!" said the duckling, "so refreshing to feel it close over her head and leave on the ground to dive!"
"J a, which is a great pleasure!" said the hen. "You must be crazy Ask the cat - he is the cleverest animal I know - whether he likes to float on the water, or I will? do not talk about myself. Ask our mistress, the old woman, no one is wiser than the world! Do you think that the desire to swim, and the water over your head, let?
"I hr not understand me," said the duckling. "We do not understand you? Those who understand you, I can! You will surely not want to be smarter than the cat or the woman - of me I do not want to talk! Do not imagine such nonsense, child! And thank your Maker for all the good that you have been you! Are not you come into a warm room, and you do not have a company of which you may learn something? But you're a talker, and it is not pleasant to deal with you! I can not believe you! I mean well by you. I say the inconvenience, and it can recognize its true friends! I advise that you lay eggs, or purr, and sparks will learn! "
" I think ch, I go out into the wide world, "said the duckling." Yes, do that! " said the hen and the ducklings went;.. it floated on the water, and dive, but of all animals, it was overlooked because of his ugliness
N un the autumn came and the leaves in the forest were yellow and brown, the wind took them, so they whirled in the air and it was very cold, the clouds hung heavy with hail and snowflakes, and on the fence stood the raven, crying, "! Au Au" sheer cold, yes, it made one shiver when look at him. The poor little thing it was really not good! One evening - the sun was so beautiful! - A large flock of beautiful birds came from the bush; The duckling had never seen so beautiful, they were quite dazzling white, with long, supple necks, there were swans. They uttered a singular cry, as they spread their glorious wings and flew in from the cold area away to warmer countries across the sea! They rose so high so high, and the ugly little duckling felt quite a strange mood. It turned the water like a wheel around it, his neck stretched high into the air after them and let out a scream so loud and strange that it frightened himself. Could he ever forget those beautiful, happy birds do not, and when at last they saw it dived to the ground, and when it rose again almost beside himself. It did not, as the names of these birds, nor where they had flown, but it was towards them as he had never felt. It certainly did not envy them. How did it occur to him to wish for such a loveliness? It would have been happy if the ducks had they only among themselves - the poor ugly creature!
U nd the winter was so cold, so cold! The Duckling had to swim around in the water to prevent the complete freezing of the same, but every night was the hole in which it swam, smaller and smaller. It was so cold that it cracked in the ice, the duckling had to continually use the legs to prevent the hole from closing up. At last it became exhausted, and lay still and helpless, frozen fast in the ice.
D it early in the morning was a farmer, so he saw this, he went and banged his wooden shoe, the ice into pieces and carried the duckling home to his wife. Since it came to himself.
The children wanted to play with him, but the duckling thought they would do him any harm, and drove in terror, fluttered into the milk-pan, so that the milk splashed into the room. The woman clasped her hands, what's in the churn, then into the meal barrel and out flew. As it was in! The woman screamed and banged his tongs, and the children tumbled over one another to catch the duckling, she laughed and cried, it was good that the door was open and there in between the buds could slip the freshly fallen snow, where it lay quite exhausted.
A about all the hardship and misery, which relate to endure the harsh winter in the duckling had to, would be too gloomy. It was in the bog between the shield, as the sun began to be warm again. The larks were singing and it was lovely spring weather.
D a could swing at a time the duckling's wings, beat them more than before and wore it like this strong, and before the same is quite knew it was in a large garden where the apple trees in The inflorescence where the lilac scent and bowed down his long, green branches up to the curved channels. Oh, here it was so beautiful, so fresh as spring! And forwards from the thicket came three beautiful white swans, rustling their feathers, and swimming lightly over the water. The duckling remembered the lovely birds, and felt a strange sadness.
"I ch will fly to those royal birds" and they will kill me, because I, who am so ugly, dare to approach them. But that is all talk, Better, of them killed as gezwackt of the ducks in the chickens beaten by the girl, who guarded the hen house, to be encountered in winter to starve and freeze "And it flew out into the water and swam towards the beautiful swans;! that it saw and shot him with outstretched wings on the same going on. "Kill me," said the poor creature, his head bent to the water surface and awaited death. But what did he see in the clear water? it his own picture looked among themselves, not a dark, gray bird more ugly and was ugly, but even a swan. It does not hurt to be born in a duck yard, if it is hatched from a swan!
E s felt extremely pleased with all the sorrow and trouble which it endured. Now felt quite lucky to be all the warmth that greeted it. And the great swans swam round and stroked it with her beak.
I n the garden came some little children, who threw bread and cake into the water, and the least said, "There's a new one!" And the other children cheered: "The more it has reached a new!" And they clapped their hands and danced around, ran to their father and mother, and it was thrown into the water, bread and cakes, and they said all: "The new one is the best thing: So young and pretty" And the old swans bowed their heads before him.
a D he felt so ashamed, and hid his head under his wing, and he did not even begin what he should do, he was not too happy, but proud, for a good heart is never proud! He recalled how he had been persecuted and ridiculed, and now he heard them say that he was the most beautiful of all birds. Even the elder with the branches bent down to him straight into the water, and the sun was so warm and so gentle! Since roared its feathers, the slender neck rose, and with all my heart he exulted: "So much happiness I never dreamed when I was the ugly duckling!"
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