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46 The Ugly Duckling: A Journey to Belonging · The Story Time With Lucky Podcast

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  Welcome back to Storytime with Lucky Podcast.
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  Today we're reading the ugly duckling.
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  Mummy duck had sat on her eggs for days and days. Now they were hatching crrrrrrat.
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  Out came three fluffy yellow ducklings. What lovely babies said mummy duck.
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  Then crrrrat.
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  The biggest egg had. Out came a big grey fuzzy duckling. What a funny looking baby.
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  Quack mummy duck.
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  Time for a swim, quacked Mummy Duck, leading her ducklings to park.
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  What fluffy yellow ducklings you have, clucked Mother Hen?
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  What's wrong with that fluffy looking one? Honked Granny Goose.
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  Nothing at all, quacked Mummy Duck.
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  Shaking her tail feathers and feathers. At the pond, Mummy Duck guided her ducklings
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  into the water. Splish, splish, splish.
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  They went as they hopped in. Splash, went the big grey duckling.
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  The little fluffy yellow ducklings swam very nicely, but the big grey duckling
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  was the best swimmer of all.
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  Well done, quacked Mummy Duck proudly. grey ducklings were even bigger than
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  the other ducklings big feet teased his brother fuzzy feathers snapped his sisters,
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  ugly duckling they all squawked at him you don't belong with us the ugly duckling felt so sad and alone,
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  he decided to run away that's sad the ugly duckling went to the lake some wild
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  ducks were swimming near the shore.
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  Quacking happily and shaking their feathers now can i stay here with you they
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  asked hopefully no the wild duck smashedly you are not one of us go away,
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  As the ugly duckling swam,
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  he looked up a flock of white birds that came along with long,
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  grateful necks and, oh, was flying across the sky.
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  They were the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. I wish I looked like them,
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  thought the ugly duckling.
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  Then everyone would look like me.
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  And gradually, the lonely days became shorter, freezing, frightening nights grew longer.
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  Winter had arrived, and when the lake froze, the ugly duckling couldn't find any food.
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  Alone, he huddled on the cold ground and flipped his feathers to try and keep them warm.
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  To try and keep warm.
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  When it snowed, the ugly duckling, shivering and shaking with cold, waddled along.
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  Until he came to a farmhouse it was warm and cosy but the children who lived
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  there were rough and noisy the ugly duckling was frightened and ran away back
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  to the icy lake he was alone again.
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  Oh,
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  the winter was long and lonely, but at last spring, King of the Wall melted.
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  The duckling slay into the wall, he looking down, he saw his reflection.
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  Who is that handsome creature? He wondered.
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  All at once, the beautiful birds had seen the sky float down beside him.
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  What a handsome swan you are, he said. The ugly duckling wasn't ugly after all.
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  He was a swan, swan.
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  Spreading his great white wings, he launched into the air with his new family.
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  He knew he could never be lonely again.
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  Helped the ugly dogling find his way from the farmhouse to the lake.
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  The end and thank you for listening.