Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . nd mother, so! Now bend your necks andsayQuack! And they did so; but the other ducks round aboutlooked at them, and said quite boldly: Look here! now were to have these hanging on,as if there were not enough of us already! And—fie—! how that Duckling yonder looks; we wontstand that! And one duck flew up inmiediately,and bit it in the neck. Let it alone, said themother; it does no harm to any one. Yes, but its too large and peculiar, said theDuck who had bitten it; and therefore
Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . nd mother, so! Now bend your necks andsayQuack! And they did so; but the other ducks round aboutlooked at them, and said quite boldly: Look here! now were to have these hanging on,as if there were not enough of us already! And—fie—! how that Duckling yonder looks; we wontstand that! And one duck flew up inmiediately,and bit it in the neck. Let it alone, said themother; it does no harm to any one. Yes, but its too large and peculiar, said theDuck who had bitten it; and therefore it must bedisciplined. Those are pretty children that the mother hasthere, said the old Duck with the rag round herleg. Theyre all pretty but that one; that was afailure. I wish she could alter it. 418 The Ugly Duckling That cannot be done, my lady, replied theMother-Duck. It is not pretty, but it has a reallygood disposition, and swims as well as any other; Imay even say it swims better. I think it will growup pretty, and become smaller in time; it has laintoo long in the egg, and therefore is not properly. ^ THE UGLY GRAY DUCKLING SWAM WITH THEM shaped. And then she pinched it in the neck, andsmoothed its feathers. Moreover, it is a drake,she said, and therefore it is not of so much conse-quence. I think he will be very strong; he makes*his way already. The other ducklings are graceful enough, saidthe old Duck. Make yourself at home; and if youfind an eels head, you may bring it to me. And now they were at home. But the poorDuckling which had crept last out of the egg, andlooked so ugly, was bitten, pushed, and jeered at,as much by the ducks as by the chickens. The Ugly Duckling 419 It is too big! they all said. And the turkeycock, who had been born with spurs, and thereforethought himself an emperor, blew himself up likea ship in full sail, and bore straight down upon it;then he gobbled, and grew quite red in the poor Duckling did not know where he shoulds
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