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One evening, the sun was just setting in with true splendor when1a flock of beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes. The...duckling had never seen anything so beautiful. They were dazzlingly white withlong waving necks. They were swans and uttering a peculiar cry. They spread outtheir magnificent broad wings and flew away from the cold regions toward warmerlands and open seas.2mounted so high, so very high, and the ugly littleduckling became strangely uneasy. He circled around and around in the water likea wheel,3craning his neck out into the air after them. Then heuttered the shriek so4piercing and so strange that he was quitefrightened by himself. Oh, he could not forget those beautiful birds, thosehappy birds and as soon as they were out of sight. He5ducked rightdown to the bottom and when he came up again, he was quite beside himself. Hedid not know what the birds were or where’d they flew. But all the same, he wasmore drawn towards them than he had ever been by any creatures before. He didnot envy them in the least. How could it occur to him even to wish to be such amarvelous beauty? He wouldn’t be thankful if only the ducks would have toleratedhim among them, the poor ugly creature.Early in the morning, a peasant came along and saw him, he went out ontothe ice and hammered a hole in it with his heavy wooden shoe, and carried theduckling home to his wife. There, it soon6revived. The childrenwanted to play with it. But the duckling thought they were going to ill use himand rushed in and he frightened to the milk pan, and the milk7spurted out all over the room. The woman shrieked and threw up herhands. Then it flew to the butter cask and down into the meal tub and out again.Oh, just imagine what it looked like by this time. The woman screamed and triedto hit it with the8tongs, and the children9tumbledover one another in trying to catch it, and they screamed with laughter.By good luck, the door stood open and the duckling flew out among thebushes and the new fallen snow. And it lay there, thoroughly exhausted, but itwould be too sad to mention all the privation and misery had to go throughduring that hard winter. When the sun began to shine warmly again, the ducklingwas in a marsh, lying among the rushes. Thelarks were singing, and the beautiful spring had come. Then all at once,it raised its wings and they flapped with much greater strength than before andbore him off vigorously. Before he knew where he was, he found himself in alarge garden with the apple trees were in full blossom. And the air wasscentedly with lilacs, the long branches of which overhung the indented shoresof the lake. Oh, the spring freshness was so delicious. Just in front of him, hesaw three beautiful white swans advancing towards him from a10thicket. With11rustling feathers, they swam lightlyover the water. The duckling recognized the majestic birds, and he was overcomeby a strange me
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