Later, the mother duck took her ducklings to the farmyard to introduce them to a very old duck lady, who was treated with great respect by all the fowls. When they reached there, their mother told them:
'You must go up and bow low before that old lady”.
The little ducks did so, and the old lady was quite pleased with them; but the rest of the ducks looked on discontentedly, and said to each other:
' Did you ever see anything quite as ugly as that great tall creature? He is a disgrace to any brood.’ And one of them ran to the big duckling and bit his neck.
Even the turkey-cock, who was so big, never passed him without mocking words, and his brothers and sisters soon became as rude and unkind as the rest.
