OLD WOMAN: I’ll put this in a hutch. I hope it’s a female and lays plenty of eggs!.If you won’t lay eggs, at least hurry up and get fat!.
UGLY DUCKLING: I hope someone would love me!.
NARRATOR: Then one night, finding the door open, he escaped. Once again he was all alone. He fled as far away as he could, and at dawn, he found himself in a thick bed of reeds.
UGLY DUCKLING: If nobody wants me, I’ll hid here forever.
NARRATOR: There was plenty of food, and the duckling began to feel a little happier, though he was lonely. One day at sunrise, he saw a flight of beautiful birds wing overhead. White, with long slender necks, yellow beaks and large wings, they were migrating south.
UGLY DUCKLING: If only I could look like them, just for a day!.
NARRATOR: Winter came and the water in the reed bed froze. The poor duckling left home to seek food in the snow. He dropped exhausted to the ground, but a farmer found him and put him in his big jacket pocket.