An Ugly Duckling

Long ago, a family of duck lived in a beautiful lake beside the beautiful hill. The story begun when the family birth their last children. An ugly smelly duck, he was so dirty. No one love him, even his brothers and sisters tried to be friendly with him. All creature doesn’t love him.

After few days feeling sad, an ugly duck saw his face by the reflection of water. “Oh my face, I’m very ugly, no one love me in this lake,” said ugly duck. So he decided to leave and went to the deep green forest.

In the midnight, he saw a cottage nearby. He tried to look at the cottage. There were lived an old woman with her han and her cat. He thaught that she might help him. Then he knocked the door and suddenly an old woman appears from the inside. “Who are you little duck?” said the old woman with tremble voice. “It’s me, an ugly smelly duckling,” said the ugly duck. “What do you want?” the old woman replied. “I need your help, I’m very hungry,” the ugly duck said. Then the old woman let the ugly duck to live with her. After few days, the ugly duck felt unhappy and he decided to leave.

In the middle of the green forest, winter set up and it made the ugly duck sick. A peasant took him to his house with his wife and his children. After few weeks lived in the house, he was afraid of their children. He ran away and lived in marshy pond in whole winter.

After the winter passed. The summer came and the ugly duck turned into handsome swan. He decided to go back to the lake. There’s no one who could recognize him. The animal in the lake loved him very much and he married with beautiful swan and lived happily ever after.

Adithea