Come, out with you!

HEN (running at him). Yes, yes! Out with you! Out with you!

[They push the Duckling out of the door into the snow.]

DUCKLING. Alas! What shall I do? Where shall I go? Why was I made so ugly that every one despises me!

SCENE III

TIME: the next spring.
PLACE: the brook on the Moor Farm.


THE UGLY DUCKLING.THE MOTHER.
THE MOLE.THE CHILDREN.
THE FATHER.THE SWANS.

[The UGLY DUCKLING sits on the hill of a MOLE near the brook which winds through the Moor Farm.]