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One bright sunny morning, near the lake, a mother duck was very pleased that her eggs had begun to hatch. ‘Cheeep. Cheeep” chirped the chicks. Mother duck was very proud of her fluffy duckling—but one of them looked different from the others.
“Quack! Quack! How can that duckling be one of mine?” Mother duck wondered. “He’s so big and ugly.” All the other chicks were mean and teased Sammy, the ugly duckling. They did not want to play with him.
Poor Sammy was very sad. “I don’t belong here,” he said. One day he packed his bags and left home to look for someone who wants to be his friend.
Soon he came to a pond. There he saw some ducks swimming. But they didn’t want to be his friends either. Poor Sammy was very unhappy, he then waddled away.
The next day an old woman saw Sammy. “I think I’ll cook him for my dinner,” she said. She tried to catch him, but Sammy ran as fast as he could.
Poor Sammy was so sad that he hid himself by the riverbank. One day he watched some beautiful swans fly past him. “I wish I were as magnificent as the swan,” he sighed.
Time passed by. Spring, summer, and fall went by. Finally spring came again. Sammy decided to go to come out of his hiding place. He looked at his reflection in the river. He was very surprised. What did he see? “Is that really me? I’m a beautiful swan!
“Look at that swan! He’s the most magnificent of them all!” said children in the town. Sammy had never felt happier in his life. He was no longer an ugly duckling.
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