![]() “How wide the world is!” said the young ones, for they truly had much more room now than when they were in the eggs. “Quack! quack!” said the duck, and they all came out quacking as fast as they could, looking all round them under the green leaves, and the mother let them look as much as they wished, for green is good for the eyes. ![]() ![]() “Piep! piep!” they cried all the yolks had come to life, and little heads were peeping out. The other ducks liked better to swim about in the canals than to climb up to sit under a burdock and cackle with her.Īt last one egg after another cracked open. Here sat a duck upon her nest, for she had to hatch her ducklings, but she was almost tired out, for it took such a long time and she so seldom had visitors. It was just as wild there as in the deepest wood. Yes, it was really delightful out in the country! In the midst of the sunshine there lay an old manor-house, with deep canals round it, and from the wall down to the water grew large burdocks, so high that little children could stand upright under the tallest of them. Round the fields and meadows were great forests, and in the midst of the forests lay deep lakes. ![]() It was delightful out in the country: it was summer, and the corn fields were golden, the oats were green, the hay had been put up in stacks in the green meadows, and the stork went about on his long red legs and chattered Egyptian, for this was the language he had learned from his mother.
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