THE UGLY DUCKLING.

OWN by the water sat a Duck

upon

At last one
broke, and

the mother
couraged,

 

her nest, for she had

to hatch her ducklings, and was
almost tired out before they came.

egg-shell after another
little creatures stuck

up their heads crying, ‘Peep! -
peep!” But there was one egg
that would not seem to hatch, and

Duck was quite dis-
At last the egg-shell

burst and there crept forth a very

large and

very ugly Duckling.

The old Duck thought it must

be a turkey chick, for it was not like
her other young ones. But the ugly
gray Duckling could swim as _ well
as the rest, if not better. But so

ugly was it that it was scoffed at |

by all the poultry in the farm-
yard, and at last it flew over the

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