Mother duck hatched her ducklings from eggs. However, the last egg contained an unusually large and ugly duckling. The other animals disliked and mocked the duckling for its appearance. Over time, the duckling grew sad and lonely as it did not fit in. During winter, the duckling saw swans for the first time and wished to be as beautiful as them. Later, the duckling saw its reflection and realized it had transformed into a graceful swan.

2. Mother duck was on her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch.

3. One shell cracked, and then another, and from each egg came a duckling that lifted its head and cried, “Peep, peep.”

4. One egg, the biggest is not hatched yet. At last the egg broke, and a new duckling came and cried, “Peep, peep.”

5. It was very large and ugly.

6. He was different, so big and ugly , that even his brothers and sisters were unkind to him.

7. The whole farmyard disliked him.

9. “ What sort of a duck are you?”, said two wild ducks. “You are so ugly” .

10. In a moment a large terrible dog passed quite near, without touching him. “ Thankful I am for being so ugly, even a dog will not bite me.”, he thought.

11. “ I want to swim on the water. It´s so delightful” “ What an absurd idea,” said the hen. In a cottage he met a cat and a hen.

12. “ Nobody understand me”, said the duckling. He left the cottage. Time passed. Autumn came, Winter approached.

13. One evening, beautiful birds came out of the bushes. They were swans. The duckling had never seen any like them before. He wished to be as lovely as these beautiful creatures.

14. One day, he could see his own image in the clear water of the lake. He was a beautiful swan.