To tell all the rest of the fowl.

"I should like a more elegant figure,"

That child of a duck went on.

"I should like to grow bigger and bigger,

Until I could swallow a swan.

"I won't be the bond slave of habit,

I won't have these webs on my toes.

I want to run round like a rabbit,

A rabbit as red as a rose.

"I don't want to waddle like mother,