The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 202
beheld its own image; and, lo ! it was no longer a clumsy dark-gray bird, ugly and hateful to look at, but a — swan ! It matters nothing if one is born in a duck-yardif one has only lain in a swans egg. It felt quite glad at all tlie need and misfortuneit had suffered, now it realized its happiness… … cried, There is a new one ! and the other chil-dren shouted joyously, Yes, a new one has ar-rived ! And they clapped their hands and dancedabout, and ran to their father and mother ; andbread and cake were thrown into the water; andthey all said, The new one is the most beauti-ful of all! so…
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