The Ugly Duckling | Full Story | Fairytale | Bedtime Stories For Kids | 4K UHD
The Ugly Duckling On a beautiful summer day, a family of ducks
is taking a swim while another is enjoying a stroll by the bank. But one duck is sitting on her eggs among the tall leaves. I wonder when my babies are going to come out. They are taking so long to hatch! It is so lonely, no one has the time to visit me. But Mommy duck didn’t have to wait too long. Soon the eggs started cracking and the little ducklings started taking small unsteady steps out of their shells. Quack quack, quack quack. Oooh, my babies are so beautiful! Now come and line up here all of you. One..Two.Three.Four…Five. Hey, there should
be one more. Mother duck looked around, and saw one egg
that had not yet hatched I think I will have to sit again on this egg
till it hatches. It seems pretty large. Soon the last egg hatched, but the duckling
that crept out was large and ugly. This little fellow doesn’t look like his brothers and sisters. The next day, Mother Duck leads her brood to the water. Oh! I am proud today that my ducklings are swimming so well! And how well the youngest one is swimming.
Come on kids, that’s enough for today. We must get to the farm before it turns dark. The duck family makes its way to the farmhouse,
where there are lots of other ducks. What is that strange-looking creature doing here? The other ducklings are so cute but this one is so big and ugly. He is ugly. We don’t want him here. That’s not a nice thing to say. He is still small, and I’m sure he will grow up to be beautiful too. But the other ducklings continued to bully
and make fun of the ugly duckling. I hope the ducklings stop this nonsense. I can’t bear to see that poor child looking so sad.
But as days went by, things started becoming
worse for the ugly duckling. Wherever he went, everyone was mean to him. Have you ever seen anything uglier than this? Ugh!! Seeing this creature in the morning, my day
will also be as ugly as he is. Ha..Ha…he seems to be getting uglier by
the day. The Ugly Duckling just wanted to hide somewhere
and cry. Even his brothers and sisters were rude to him. Mother Duck was very sad to see everyone treat
the ugly ducking so badly. Nobody wants to talk to me or play with me
because I am ugly. I will run away from here. So the ugly duckling flew over the fence of
the farmyard and continued flying till he spotted a large moor. He decided to spend the night there. I am so tired.
I think I will spend the night here. The next morning, the ugly duckling woke up to
the sound of loud quacking. He opened his eyes and saw a flock of wild ducks. Who are you? What are you doing here? Can I please stay here for a while? I have nowhere to go. You are ugly….Stay here,
but don’t get in our way. The Ugly Duckling stayed on the moor for a few days. He felt lonely, but no one bullied him or
hurt him because of his looks. One morning, the duckling heard a noise like a big bang. He lay still, too scared to move. When he finally lifted his head and looked
around, all the other ducks had fled. The ugly duckling also fled from the moor
as fast as it could. It flew as fast as its young wings would take him. However, suddenly there was thunder and lightning,
scaring the little duckling. Arrr. I am so wet and cold. That cottage there looks warm, maybe I can take shelter there. The cottage belonged to an old lady, who lived
with her tomcat and hen who found the duckling the next morning. What is happening here? Why are you making so much noise? What is this we have here? Looks like a duck, though a very ugly one.
I know what I will do. I will keep it with me and wait for it to lay eggs. Then I will have eggs from my hen and from this duck too. Ah, but I do hope this is a duck and not a drake. So the ugly duckling stayed with the old lady
in her cottage. But here also, the tomcat and the hen made
It’s life so miserable! Hey you, don’t you get scared when you see your face in the mirror? Look at me my coat is so silky. Look at my whiskers, so long and beautiful. The mistress says my walk is so graceful. You are such a loser. You cannot even lay an egg! Look at my eggs, such lovely big and brown ones.
The ugly duckling continued to be lonely. He would sit in front of the window looking
at the small pond outside. How I wish I could swim in that pond. It used to be so nice when I swam in the cool water back home. Are you mad? The mistress is not going to let you go. You have a safe house, what more do you want? Behave yourself and don’t anger the mistress,
the cat, or even me. Want to swim, indeed! The ugly duckling felt very, very sad, wondering
what to do. I know this place is safe, but I feel like
a prisoner here, being punished by being not allowed to swim.
I want to swim – I want to be free to swim
and fly as I please. I have to escape from here somehow. So one night, the duckling quietly crept out
of the cottage and went in search of a new home. Soon he found a beautiful lake where he could swim and dive. Ahhhhh! This is such a lovely place. It feels so good to swim after so long. I hope the other animals and birds here are
friendly so I don’t have to move away from here also.
But alas, here too the other animals did not
want to be friends with the ugly duckling. Why does everybody keep avoiding me? Just because I am ugly, it doesn’t mean
everyone has to be mean! No one wants to play with me or even talk to me! So life continued in this miserable way for the ugly duckling. Soon, the seasons changed. Autumn set in, and the color of the leaves
changed from red to orange and then gold. Winter followed. The forest turned white, and a very cold wind set in. The dark clouds made the duckling feel
even more gloomy so the duckling decided to go to the lakeside. And what a lovely sight he saw there! What are these beautiful birds? I don’t think I have seen them before. How beautifully they spread their large wings! It looks like they are not flying but just
gliding through the sky. Though the winter grew colder and colder,
the duckling continued to swim despite the freezing water and then finally took refuge in some bushes.
Finally, it was spring again. Plants started sprouting and the sun peeped
down from the sky. The duckling was so happy that it was becoming warm again. Everything around me has become so beautiful. My wings have also become strong and I can
now swim in the pond close by. Suddenly, the duckling once again saw the
same beautiful birds that he had seen at the start of spring and quickly ran and hid behind some bushes.
Those birds are so beautiful. I better not go near them, or they too will
make fun of me. I am so scared that they might even kill me! I am so tired of being picked on by everybody,
first the ducklings at the farm, my brothers and sisters the hen and tomcat at the cottage, and everybody else. I wish I had never been born! The duckling went to a quiet spot on the lake
where nobody could see him. He was very, very sad, and big fat tears rolled
down his face. Suddenly, the duckling saw its reflection
in the lake, and couldn’t believe its eyes! For staring at him in the clear water below
was his reflection, no longer a dark, grey bird, ugly and repulsive to look at.
Instead, he had turned into a graceful and
beautiful swan. The ugly duckling had transformed into a beautiful swan!! All the other swans came to greet the newcomer
and stroked his neck with their beaks. Finally, the ugly little thing was accepted
and loved by his new friends, to whom he belonged, the beautiful and graceful swans. A family with two children came to see the swans swimming. Look, there is a new one. Father, mother, come here, there is another swan. A new one has arrived. The new one is the most beautiful of all. Oh, he is so young and pretty! The swan did not know how to react to so much praise. He felt shy and tried to hide his face.
After being mocked and taunted and bullied for so long, he couldn’t believe he was being appreciated and accepted! And he was being called beautiful! I never dreamt that I would see a day when
someone would call me beautiful! I wish I had received the same love and affection
when I was the little and ugly creature I wouldn’t have spent such a sad childhood. Why do people treat others according to their looks? That is so, so sad!
