Quack now! Don’t turn your toes in; a well brought up duckling keeps his legs wide apart just like father and mother; that’s it, now bend your necks, and say quack!”
They did as they were bid, but the other ducks round about locked at them and said, quite loud:” Just look there! Now we are to have that tribe! Just as if there were not enough of us already, and, oh, dear! How ugly that ducking is; we won’t stand him!” and a duck flew at him at once and bit him in the neck.
“Let him be,” said the mother; “he is doing no harm.”
“Very likely not, but he is so ungainly and queer,” said the biter; “he must be whacked.”
“They are handsome children mother has,” said the old duck with the rag round her leg; “all good looking except this one. He is not a good specimen; it’s a pity you can’t make him over again.”
“That can’t be done, your grace,” said the mother duck; “he is not handsome, but he is a thorough good creature, and he swims as beautifully as any of the others; nay, I think he will improve as he goes on, or perhaps in time he may grow smaller! He was too long in the egg, and so he has not come out with a very good figure,”
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