1.英文版丑小鸭（文章）概括,越短越好

thecountrysidewaslovely.itwassummer.thewheatwasgoldenandtheoatswerestillgreen.thehaywasstackedinthelow-lyingmeadows.therelaygreatwoodsaroundthefieldsandmeadows.thereweredeeplakesinthemidstofthewoods.inthesunniestspotstoodanoldmansionsurroundedbyadeepmoat.greatleavesgrewfromthevinesonthewallsofthehouserightdowntothewater'sedge.someoftheleavesweresobigthatachildcouldusethemasanumbrella.inthedepthsofaforestaduckwassittinginhernest.herlittleducklingswereabouttobehatched atlastoneeggafteranotherbegantocrack."cheep,cheep!"theducklingssaid."quack,quack!"saidtheduck."howbigtheworldis!"saidalltheyoungones.butthebiggesteggwasstillthere.andthenshesettledherselfonthenestagain."well,howareyougettingon?"saidanoldduckwhocametopayheravisit."thiseggistakingsuchalongtime,"answeredthesittingduck." theshellwillnotcrack,buttheothersarethefinestducklings.theyareliketheirfather.""letmelookattheeggwhichwon'tcrack,"saidtheoldduck."youmaybesittingonaturkey'segg!ihavebeencheatedlikethatonce.yes.it'saturkey'segg!youhadbetterleaveitaloneandteachtheotherchildrentoswim.""iwillsitonitalittlelonger." atlastthebigeggcracked.howbiganduglythebabywas!"thatisaverybigduckling."shesaid,"noneoftheotherslooklikethat.canhebeaturkey'schick?iwillsoonfindout.iwillmakehimgointowater." thenextdaythemotherduckwithherfamilywentdowntothemoat.shesaid,andoneducklingjumpedinafteranother.thebiguglyoneswamaboutwiththem."no,thatisnoturkey,"shesaid,"quack,quack!nowcomewithmeandiwilltakeyouintotheworld.keepclosetomeallthetime.becarefulofthecat!"thefirstdaypassed,andeverythingwasfine.afterwards,mattersgrewworseandworse.thepoorducklingwaschasedandharassedbyalltheducklingsbecausehewasveryugly.theducksbithim,thehenspeckedhim.andthegirlwhofedthemkickedhimaside.thenheranoffandsooncametoagreatmarshwherethewildduckslived.hewassotiredandmiserablethathestayedtherethewholenight.inthemorningthewildducksflewuptoseetheirnewfriend."youareveryugly,"saidthewildducks,"butthatdoesnotmattertous."hestayedtheretwowholedays.andthentwowildgeesecame.justatthatmomentthesoundof"bang!bang!"washeard,andboththewildgeesefelldeadamongthereeds.itwasaterribleshocktothepoorduckling.abigdogappearedclosebesidehim.heshowedhissharpteethandwentonwithouttouchinghim."oh,thankheaven!iamsouglythateventhedogwon'tbiteme!"sighedtheduckling.intheeveninghereachedalittlecottagewhereanoldwomanlivedwithhercatandherhen.hereyesightwasnotgood,andshethoughttheducklingwasafatduck.willberichifihaveduckeggs,"shesaid.soshetookintheducklingforthreeweeks,buthelaidnoeggs.thecatwasthemasterofthehouseandthehenwasthemistress."canyoulayeggs?"askedthehen."no,"answeredtheduckling."thenyouhadbettergooutintothewideworld,"saidthecat.soawaywenttheduckling.oneeveningthesunwasjustsettingwhenaflockofbeautifullargebirdsappearedoutofthebushes.theducklingthought,"i'veneverseenanythingsobeautiful." theyweredazzlinglywhitewithlongnecks.theywereswans.hedidnotknowwhatthebirdswere.thewinterwassobitterlycoldthattheducklingswamaboutinthewatertokeephimselffromfreezing.thesunbegantoshinewarmlyagain.thelarksweresingingandbeautifulspringhadcome.then,allatonce,theducklingraisedhiswingsandtheyflappedwithmuchgreaterstrengththanbefore.beforeheknewit,hefoundhimselfinalargegardenwheretheappletreeswereinfullblossomandlongbranchesoflilacsoverhungtheshoresofthelake.justinfrontofhimhesawthreebeautifulwhiteswansswimmingtowardshim."iwillflytothemandtheywillhackmetopiecesbecauseiamsougly.butitdoesn'tmatter.iwouldratherbekilledbythemthanbebittenbytheducksorpeckedbythehens."soheflewintothewaterandswamtowardstheswans.theysawhimanddartedtowardshim."killme!oh,killme!"saidthepoorduckling,andhewaitedforhisdeathbowinghisheadtowardsthewater.butwhatdidheseeintheclearwater?hewasnolongeradarkgrayuglybird.hewashimselfaswan!somechildrencameintothegardenwithcornandpiecesofbread,whichtheythrewintothewater.thesmallestchildshoutedwithjoy,"thereisanewone."theotherchildrenshouted,"yes,anewonehascome." hesaidtohimself,"ineverdreamedthaticouldbesohappywheniwastheuglyduckling!"。

2.丑小鸭的故事英文版,我要背下来的,简单而不拗口

The Ugly Ducking In the countryside a duck was sitting on her eggs . She was very tired ,but still she sat there quietly after a while the eggs broke one by one .The little ducks jumped out one after another .But the biggest egg didn't break .At last , the egg broke .But a big and ugly ducking jumped out .That duck is so ugly .The other ducks said .they didn't like him and called him “ ugly ducking” I should leave and go to another place .The ugly ducking thought .So he left .After dark , the ugly ducking ran to a house , and went into the house .There lived an old grandma .The next day ,the old grandma found the ugly ducking and let him stay with her “New , I'll have duck's eggs to eat ”.After a few days ,the ugly ducking disliked his lift there “I want to see the wide world ” The forest in the autumn was so beautiful .The ugly ducking saw some beautiful birds in the lake .He didn't know they were swans . Winter was coming and the ugly ducking felt colder and colder . At last , he was frozen on the lake . The next morning a farmer saw the ugly ducking and saved him .In the spring , the ugly ducking put up his wings in the lake . He was able to fly and felt so happy . The ugly ducking flew to the lake . He looked at himself in the water . He had become a beautiful white swan .So he swim to other swans happily and he lived happily ever after .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Ugly Ducking The ugly duckling is ugly, all chicken, duck laughed at him, pushed him, even his own brothers and sisters also bully him, despise him, even his mother had topersuade him to go away.In the face of great pressure, he was forced to leave home after wandering, risk.In the wild duck group, he "as far as possible to respectfully salute", "just wantthem to let him lie in the reed inside," no more begging.Yan He is good, but was killed by hunters. The ugly duckling take escape from death, came to a cottage. He swallow insult and humiliation silently after living here for a while, have chicken and a cat teasing out.He finally unbearable, he feel excited alone came to the nature. In autumn, the ugly duckling saw flying south happiness swan, and he could not forget thosebeautiful birds.Arrived in the winter, the day is so cold, the ugly duckling was almost froze to death in the cold lake.It is a beautiful spring, he saw those beautiful birds. After a fierce ideological struggle, the ugly duckling can't restrain inner desire, decision regardless of life and death to the beautiful swan.However, when the water reflected is no longer the grey duck ugly, but abeautiful white swan------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 两种哦~楼主比较喜欢那个就选哪个吧 （*^__^*） 嘻嘻……。

3.丑小鸭的故事英文版,要简单点

The Ugly Duckling One evening, the sun was just setting in with true splendor when 1)a flock of beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes. The duckling had never seen anything so beautiful. They were dazzlingly white with long waving necks. They were swans and uttering a peculiar cry. They spread out their magnificent broad wings and flew away from the cold regions toward warmer lands and open seas. They 2)mounted so high, so very high, and the ugly little duckling became strangely uneasy. He circled around and around in the water like a wheel, 3)craning his neck out into the air after them. Then he uttered the shriek so 4)piercing and so strange that he was quite frightened by himself. Oh, he could not forget those beautiful birds, those happy birds and as soon as they were out of sight. He 5)ducked right down to the bottom and when he came up again, he was quite beside himself. He did not know what the birds were or where'd they flew. But all the same, he was more drawn towards them than he had ever been by any creatures before. He did not envy them in the least. How could it occur to him even to wish to be such a marvelous beauty? He wouldn't be thankful if only the ducks would have tolerated him among them, the poor ugly creature. Early in the morning, a peasant came along and saw him, he went out onto the ice and hammered a hole in it with his heavy wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. There, it soon 6)revived. The children wanted to play with it. But the duckling thought they were going to ill use him and rushed in and he frightened to the milk-pan, and the milk 7)spurted out all over the room. The woman shrieked and threw up her hands. 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 tried to hit it with the 8)tongs, and the children 9)tumbled over 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 the bushes and the new fallen snow. And it lay there, thoroughly exhausted, but it would be too sad to mention all the privation and misery had to go through during that hard winter. When the sun began to shine warmly again, the duckling was in a marsh, lying among the rushes. The larks 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 and bore him off vigorously. Before he knew where he was, he found himself in a large garden with the apple trees were in full blossom. And the air was scentedly with lilacs, the long branches of which overhung the indented shores of the lake. Oh, the spring freshness was so delicious. Just in front of him, he saw three beautiful white swans advancing towards him from a 10)thicket. With 11)rustling feathers, they swam lightly over the water. The duckling recognized the majestic birds, and he was overcome by a strange melancholy. “I will fly to them, the royal birds, and they will hack me to pieces because I who am so ugly venture to approach them. But it won't matter. Better to be killed by them than be snacked up by the ducks, 12)pecked by the hens, or 13)spurned by the hen wife, or suffer so much misery in the winter.” So he flew into the water and swam towards the stately swans. They saw him and darted toward him with ruffled feathers. “Kill me, oh, kill me.” said the poor creature. And bowing his head towards the water, he awaited his death. But what did he see? Reflected in the transparent water, he saw below him his own image, but he was no longer a clumsy dark gray bird, ugly and ungainly. He was himself, a swan.。

4.丑小鸭英文故事简短

The Ugly Duckling

It was summer. A duck was sitting in her nest. Her little ducklings were about to hatched.

One egg after another began to crack,but the biggest one was still there. At last, it cracked.The baby was big and ugly.

The next day,the mother duck with her family went down to the moat. One duckling jumped in after another. The big ugly one swam about with them.But the poor duckling was chased and harassed by all the ducklings because he was very ugly.The ducks bit him,the hens pecked him. And the girl who fed them kicked him aside.

Then he ran off and soon came to a great marsh where the wild ducks lived. He stayed there for two whole days.A big dog appeared close beside him,but he did not touch the duckling. "Oh,I am so ugly that even the dog won`t bite me." Sighed the duckling.

In the evening,he reached a little cottage. Because he could not lay eggs,he was driven away by the hen.

one evening,he saw some swans.He flew into the water and swam towards them. What did he see in the clear water? He was no longer a dark grey ugly bird. He wa s himself a swan.

He said to himself,"I never dreamed that I could be so happy when I was the ugly duckling."

译文：夏天到了，一只鸭子正坐在它的窝里。它的小宝宝们就要孵出来了。

一只又一只的蛋开始裂开，但是最大的蛋仍然在那里。最后，它破裂了。宝宝又大又丑。第二天，鸭妈妈带着一家去河沟里去了。一只又一只的小鸭子跳了进去。这个又大又丑的鸭子在别的鸭子边上游泳。但因为它长得很丑，不但没有被鸭群接受，还挨啄、被排挤、被讪笑。而且在鸡群中也是这样。他因此觉得很自卑。无奈之下，丑小鸭飞过篱笆逃走了。有一次，他遇到了一只猎狗，但那只猎狗只是闻闻他，并没有把他抓住。他暗自庆幸，“我丑得连猎狗也不敢咬我了！”他为自己逃生而庆幸，同时为自己长得丑而懊丧。在这以后，丑小鸭遇到了很多磨难。后来，对美好大自然、美好生活的向往与追求驱使着丑小鸭不再依靠别人生活。有一天，三只美丽的白天鹅从树阴里一直游到他面前来，小鸭认出了这些美丽的动物，于是心里感到一种说不出的难过。小鸭感到自己要游向他们，就算他们把自己弄死也没关系，因为他有一颗追求美的心。但他在水里看到的是什么呢，不再是那只丑陋的小鸭了，而是——一只美丽的天鹅！

5.丑小鸭英文简洁版 50字

When the tale begins, a mother duck's eggs hatch. One of the little birds is perceived by the duck's neighbors as a homely little creature. He wanders sadly and sees a flock of migrating wild swans; he is delighted and excited but he cannot join them for he is too young and cannot fly. When spring arrives a flock of swans descends on the now thawing lake. The ugly duckling decides to throw himself at the flock of swans deciding that it is better to be killed by such beautiful birds than to live a life of ugliness and misery. He is shocked when the swans welcome and accept him, only to realize that he has grown into one of them.。

6.求简易一点的丑小鸭英文版,用于幼儿讲故事用的

应该没有你要的简易版，因为是一个安徒生童话，要短的话，只能请求英文水平好的的高人给你重新概括一下了，但估计效果就会不一样了。

你可以用下面的版扼要一下。The Ugly Duckling One evening, the sun was just setting in with true splendor when 1)a flock of beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes. The duckling had never seen anything so beautiful. They were dazzlingly white with long waving necks. They were swans and uttering a peculiar cry. They spread out their magnificent broad wings and flew away from the cold regions toward warmer lands and open seas. They 2)mounted so high, so very high, and the ugly little duckling became strangely uneasy. He circled around and around in the water like a wheel, 3)craning his neck out into the air after them. Then he uttered the shriek so 4)piercing and so strange that he was quite frightened by himself. Oh, he could not forget those beautiful birds, those happy birds and as soon as they were out of sight. He 5)ducked right down to the bottom and when he came up again, he was quite beside himself. He did not know what the birds were or where'd they flew. But all the same, he was more drawn towards them than he had ever been by any creatures before. He did not envy them in the least. How could it occur to him even to wish to be such a marvelous beauty? He wouldn't be thankful if only the ducks would have tolerated him among them, the poor ugly creature. Early in the morning, a peasant came along and saw him, he went out onto the ice and hammered a hole in it with his heavy wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. There, it soon 6)revived. The children wanted to play with it. But the duckling thought they were going to ill use him and rushed in and he frightened to the milk-pan, and the milk 7)spurted out all over the room. The woman shrieked and threw up her hands. 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 tried to hit it with the 8)tongs, and the children 9)tumbled over 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 the bushes and the new fallen snow. And it lay there, thoroughly exhausted, but it would be too sad to mention all the privation and misery had to go through during that hard winter. When the sun began to shine warmly again, the duckling was in a marsh, lying among the rushes. The larks 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 and bore him off vigorously. Before he knew where he was, he found himself in a large garden with the apple trees were in full blossom. And the air was scentedly with lilacs, the long branches of which overhung the indented shores of the lake. Oh, the spring freshness was so delicious. Just in front of him, he saw three beautiful white swans advancing towards him from a 10)thicket. With 11)rustling feathers, they swam lightly over the water. The duckling recognized the majestic birds, and he was overcome by a strange melancholy. “I will fly to them, the royal birds, and they will hack me to pieces because I who am so ugly venture to approach them. But it won't matter. Better to be killed by them than be snacked up by the ducks, 12)pecked by the hens, or 13)spurned by the hen wife, or suffer so much misery in the winter.” So he flew into the water and swam towards the stately swans. They saw him and darted toward him with ruffled feathers. “Kill me, oh, kill me.” said the poor creature. And bowing his head towards the water, he awaited his death. But what did he see? Reflected in the transparent water, he saw below him his own image, but he was no longer a clumsy dark gray bird, ugly and ungainly. He was himself, a swan. 丑小鸭一天晚上，当太阳正在美丽的霞光中落下去的时候，有一群漂亮的大鸟从灌木林里飞出来，小鸭从来没有看到过这样美丽的东西。

他们白得发亮，颈项又长又柔软。这就是天鹅。

他们发出一种奇异的叫声，展开美丽的长翅膀，从寒冷的地带飞向温暖的国度，飞向不结冰的湖上去。 他们飞得很高--那么高，丑小鸭不禁感到一种无名的兴奋。

他在水上像一个车轮似地不停地旋转着，同时，把自己的颈项高高地向他们伸着，发出一种响亮的怪叫声，连他自己也吓着了。啊！他再也忘不了那些美丽的鸟儿，那些幸福的鸟儿。

当他看不见他们的时候，就沉入水底；但是当他再冒到水面上来的时候，却感到非常寂寞。他不知道那些鸟儿的名字，也不知道他们要飞去什么地方。

不过他爱他们，好像他从来还没有爱过什么东西似的。他并不。

7.丑小鸭英文版

One evening, the sun was just setting in with true splendor when 1)a flock of beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes. The duckling had never seen anything so beautiful. They were dazzlingly white with long waving necks. They were swans and uttering a peculiar cry. They spread out their magnificent broad wings and flew away from the cold regions toward warmer lands and open seas. They 2)mounted so high, so very high, and the ugly little duckling became strangely uneasy. He circled around and around in the water like a wheel, 3)craning his neck out into the air after them. Then he uttered the shriek so 4)piercing and so strange that he was quite frightened by himself. Oh, he could not forget those beautiful birds, those happy birds and as soon as they were out of sight. He 5)ducked right down to the bottom and when he came up again, he was quite beside himself. He did not know what the birds were or where' d they flew. But all the same, he was more drawn towards them than he had ever been by any creatures before. He did not envy them in the least. How could it occur to him even to wish to be such a marvelous beauty? He wouldn't be thankful if only the ducks would have tolerated him among them, the poor ugly creature. Early in the morning, a peasant came along and saw him, he went out onto the ice and hammered a hole in it with his heavy wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. There, it soon 6)revived. The children wanted to play with it. But the duckling thought they were going to ill use him and rushed in and he frightened to the milk-pan, and the milk 7)spurted out all over the room. The woman shrieked and threw up her hands. 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 tried to hit it with the 8)tongs, and the children 9)tumbled over 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 the bushes and the new fallen snow. And it lay there, thoroughly exhausted, but it would be too sad to mention all the privation and misery had to go through during that hard winter. When the sun began to shine warmly again, the duckling was in a marsh, lying among the rushes. The larks 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 and bore him off vigorously. Before he knew where he was, he found himself in a large garden with the apple trees were in full blossom. And the air was scentedly with lilacs, the long branches of which overhung the indented shores of the lake. Oh, the spring freshness was so delicious. Just in front of him, he saw three beautiful white swans advancing towards him from a 10)thicket. With 11)rustling feathers, they swam lightly over the water. The duckling recognized the majestic birds, and he was overcome by a strange melancholy. “I will fly to them, the royal birds, and they will hack me to pieces because I who am so ugly venture to approach them. But it won't matter. Better to be killed by them than be snacked up by the ducks, 12)pecked by the hens, or 13)spurned by the hen wife, or suffer so much misery in the winter.” So he flew into the water and swam towards the stately swans. They saw him and darted toward him with ruffled feathers. “Kill me, oh, kill me.” said the poor creature. And bowing his head towards the water, he awaited his death. But what did he see? Reflected in the transparent water, he saw below him his own image, but he was no longer a clumsy dark gray bird, ugly and ungainly. He was himself, a swan.。

8.丑小鸭用英语的过去式简洁概括

丑小鸭用英语的过去式简洁概括。

A swan egg was mixed up with a duck family's eggs and was born as a large duckling. He was unwelcomed by the rest of the small real ducklings and unwelcomed by the near by swans. He was very lonely and very sad. He thought he was an abnormal duckling, large and ugly. So he was living on his own. After some time, he grew slowly and changed into a beautiful swan, yet he still didn't know that he was a swan because he couldn't see himself. One day, another swan invited him to come along and play with her. He said to her that he was just an ugly duckling, how could he play with a beautiful swan. But she said: "nonsense, why don't you look at yourself in the water". The Ugly Duckling looked into the water and found that he was really a beautiful swan. He was so happy and join the other swans in the river. He was not lonely anymore and migrated with them the following fall(autumn).

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9.丑小鸭英文版

One evening, the sun was just setting in with true splendor when 1)a flock of beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes. The duckling had never seen anything so beautiful. They were dazzlingly white with long waving necks. They were swans and uttering a peculiar cry. They spread out their magnificent broad wings and flew away from the cold regions toward warmer lands and open seas. They 2)mounted so high, so very high, and the ugly little duckling became strangely uneasy. He circled around and around in the water like a wheel, 3)craning his neck out into the air after them. Then he uttered the shriek so 4)piercing and so strange that he was quite frightened by himself. Oh, he could not forget those beautiful birds, those happy birds and as soon as they were out of sight. He 5)ducked right down to the bottom and when he came up again, he was quite beside himself. He did not know what the birds were or where' d they flew. But all the same, he was more drawn towards them than he had ever been by any creatures before. He did not envy them in the least. How could it occur to him even to wish to be such a marvelous beauty? He wouldn't be thankful if only the ducks would have tolerated him among them, the poor ugly creature. Early in the morning, a peasant came along and saw him, he went out onto the ice and hammered a hole in it with his heavy wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. There, it soon 6)revived. The children wanted to play with it. But the duckling thought they were going to ill use him and rushed in and he frightened to the milk-pan, and the milk 7)spurted out all over the room. The woman shrieked and threw up her hands. 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 tried to hit it with the 8)tongs, and the children 9)tumbled over 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 the bushes and the new fallen snow. And it lay there, thoroughly exhausted, but it would be too sad to mention all the privation and misery had to go through during that hard winter. When the sun began to shine warmly again, the duckling was in a marsh, lying among the rushes. The larks 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 and bore him off vigorously. Before he knew where he was, he found himself in a large garden with the apple trees were in full blossom. And the air was scentedly with lilacs, the long branches of which overhung the indented shores of the lake. Oh, the spring freshness was so delicious. Just in front of him, he saw three beautiful white swans advancing towards him from a 10)thicket. With 11)rustling feathers, they swam lightly over the water. The duckling recognized the majestic birds, and he was overcome by a strange melancholy. “I will fly to them, the royal birds, and they will hack me to pieces because I who am so ugly venture to approach them. But it won't matter. Better to be killed by them than be snacked up by the ducks, 12)pecked by the hens, or 13)spurned by the hen wife, or suffer so much misery in the winter.” So he flew into the water and swam towards the stately swans. They saw him and darted toward him with ruffled feathers. “Kill me, oh, kill me.” said the poor creature. And bowing his head towards the water, he awaited his death. But what did he see? Reflected in the transparent water, he saw below him his own image, but he was no longer a clumsy dark gray bird, ugly and ungainly. He was himself, a swan.。

10.丑小鸭英文故事

The countryside was lovely. It was summer. The wheat was golden and the oats were still green. The hay was stacked in the low-lying meadows. There lay great woods around the fields and meadows. There were deep lakes in the midst of the woods. In the sunniest spot stood an old mansion surrounded by a deep moat. Great leaves grew from the vines on the walls of the house right down to the water's edge. Some of the leaves were so big that a child could use them as an umbrella. In the depths of a forest a duck was sitting in her nest. Her little ducklings were about to be hatched At last one egg after another began to crack." Cheep, cheep!" the ducklings said." Quack, quack!" said the duck. " How big the world is!" said all the young ones. But the biggest egg was still there. And then she settled herself on the nest again. "Well, how are you getting on?" said an old duck who came to pay her a visit." This egg is taking such a long time," answered the sitting duck." The shell will not crack, but the others are the finest ducklings. They are like their father." "let me look at the egg which won't crack," said the old duck." You may be sitting on a turkey's egg! I have been cheated like that once. Yes. it's a turkey's egg! You had better leave it alone and teach the other children to swim." "I will sit on it a little longer." At last the big egg cracked. How big and ugly the baby was! " That is a very big duckling." she said, " None of the others look like that. Can he be a turkey's chick? I will soon find out. I will make him go into water." The next day the mother duck with her family went down to the moat. She said, and one duckling jumped in after another. The big ugly one swam about with them." No, that is no turkey," she said," Quack, quack! Now come with me and I will take you into the world. Keep close to me all the time. Be careful of the cat!" The first day passed, and everything was fine. Afterwards, matters grew worse and worse. The poor duckling was chased and harassed by all the ducklings because he was very ugly.The ducks bit him, the hens pecked him. and the girl who fed them kicked him aside. Then he ran off and soon came to a great marsh where the wild ducks lived. He was so tired and miserable that he stayed there the whole night. In the morning the wild ducks flew up to see their new friend." You are very ugly," said the wild ducks," but that does not matter to us." He stayed there two whole days . And then two wild geese came. Just at that moment the sound of "Bang! Bang!" was heard, and both the wild geese fell dead among the reeds. It was a terrible shock to the poor duckling. A big dog appeared close beside him. He showed his sharp teeth and went on without touching him. "Oh, thank Heaven! I am so ugly that even the dog won't bite me!" sighed the duckling. In the evening he reached a little cottage where an old woman lived with her cat and her hen. Her eyesight was not good, and she thought the duckling was a fat duck. will be rich if I have duck eggs," she said. So she took in the duckling for three weeks, but he laid no eggs. The cat was the master of the house and the hen was the mistress. "Can you lay eggs?" asked the hen. "No," answered the duckling. "Then you had better go out into the wide world," said the cat. So away went the duckling. One evening the sun was just setting when a flock of beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes. The duckling thought," I've never seen anything so beautiful." They were dazzlingly white with long necks. They were swans. He did not know what the birds were. The winter was so bitterly cold that the duckling swam about in the water to keep himself from freezing. The sun began to shine warmly again. The larks were singing and beautiful spring had come. Then, all at once, the duckling raised his wings and they flapped with much greater strength than before. Before he knew it, he found himself in a large garden where the apple trees were in full blossom and long branches of lilacs overhung the shores of the lake. Just in front of him he saw three beautiful white swans swimming towards him. "I will fly to them and they will hack me to pieces because I am so ugly. But it doesn't matter. I would rather be killed by them than be bitten by the ducks or pecked by the hens." So he flew into the water and swam towards the swans. They saw him and darted towards him. "Kill me! Oh, kill me!" said the poor duckling, and he waited for his death bowing his head towards the water. But what did he see in the clear water? He was no longer a dark gray ugly bird. He was himself a swan!。