The Ugly Duckling

By Canfield, Dorothy

Book Id: WPLBN0000630386
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Ugly Duckling
Author:	Canfield, Dorothy
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: THE fire on the nursery hearth gave a little flicker and the sleepy child opened his eyes as the story finished. ??arching his neck and looking down into the clear water the ugly duckling saw that he had become a beautiful white swan, and all the sorrows he had suffered while he was an ugly duckling vanished away and he was as happy as sunshine and?? The fire fell together with a soft purr and the child was asleep. When the young mother came back, empty?armed from the bedroom, she sank down before the fire and the occupant of the big chair. ?Dear Mother?Aunt,? she said, ?how sweet to have you in my own home. Every day of life with my children is like a fresh revelation of all you were to us in those days of childhood you made so happy. I took it then as unconsciously as the sunlight or any other blessed thing, but now I know what sacrifices and never?ending care it meant. And after all?though that is so hard to realize?we weren't your own children and you were giving up your own life to us, day by day. It is such a joy now to have you see me trying to be to my little ones what you were to us?to have you hear me telling them the lovely tales you told us. I think my favorite is the one I told to?night. I can always hear your voice as I end it, and if my children feel as happy over the joy of the swan as I used to??

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Ugly Duckling, 1 -- Dorothy Canfield, 1