WICKED ELF. But we have such pretty things to tell you!

INGÉ I care not for your pretty things! I go to fetch wood for my mother. I go to walk in the mud if need be. Away with you! I'll have none of you! Away, away, I say!

THE UGLY DUCKLING

SCENE I

TIME: one summer morning.
PLACE: the farmyard of the Moor Farm.


MADAM DUCK.TURKEY.
FIRST DUCKLING.GRAY GANDER.
SECOND DUCKLING.WHITE GOOSE.
THE UGLY DUCKLING.PLYMOUTH ROCK HEN.
THIRD DUCKLING.RED ROOSTER.

[MADAM DUCK enters the farmyard with her new brood of DUCKLINGS. The other fowls approach.]

TURKEY (showing displeasure). A new brood of ducks! Look you all—a new brood of ducks!