Show S SQ I Q p SILVER BLANCHE j Fluffy Chick would sit on the thc bank b lc hour after hour hour- watching tho ducks swimming around on tho the pond and wish that she too was n. n duck Theres so much more for Cor them to todo todo I do the she clucked to herself All 11 we chickens can do la is to walk wall in the i chicken yard or scratch in the tho mead mead- I OWL O I By tho the time she sho heard her mama calling her to supper I Fluffy Chick was as her lot very er much discontented with ith I perfectly clucked when Chick Mama Yellow Hon Fluffy told her she wished she Rhe was a I. I duck better beUer be glad Slad that youre you're a a. chicken I think It If you ou ever ol expect to amount to lo anything in this world you ou must stop trying to be other othor folks and just be your our own self Who ho ever cr heard of or tho the likes crowed rowed Daddy Rc Red Rooster when Mama Iama Yellow lIen Hen told him tho the trouble she sheW W was S having with Fluffy Chick I 1 think tho the best hest thing thinS to do would bo be to shut I her up a n while in a L bo box and maybe mabo shed she'd come como to her senses But nut Mama Yellow Hen lien Hen shook her head bead sadly That would do her no good bood at all Im I'm sure sho replied Then let lel her fight It out herself replied Daddy Dadd Red ned Rooster and feeling feeling feel feel- ing InS rather rathor peeved cd at Fluffy Chick for forthe forthe forthe the worry she sho was causing Mamma Yellow Hen lien Daddy Red Rooster strutted d right over O to Fluffy Chick and gave s hor her such auch a a. peck on tho head hend th that t sho ran Into tho the chicken coop coup and didn't come out until Mania Mama Yellow Yellow Yellow Yel Yel- low Hen called her to breakfast the next da day I I thin joud you'd 1 bo be better or off if It you didn't hang around those those sill silly good good- for nothing ducks clucked Mama Iama Yellow Hen lien giving s Fluffy Chick tho the nicest grains and bugs buSS sho she could find In an attempt to make her harpy happy All the they think of or Is Idling awa away away- their time lime swimming shimming on that water A foolish fool- fool j i Ish empty life I must saI say sa because you OU dont don't know what I you youre you're rc talking about quacked Missy White Duck Why h If It you did but know It out out In tho the center of or tint pond pond fou found d the very cr sweetest sweetest sweet sweet- est cst bugs atHI bugs and that can be lie found round anywhere Then hep her feathers Missy White Duc Duck waddled off ort to toward ard the thenn nn 0 d hor den teh ten little ducklings s close at ather ather ati i her heels Anti j Chick waited her chance and aad when hen Mama Inma Yellow Hen and und Daddy Day Red weren't looking awa away she sheran sheran sheran ran to the pond She wanted to be a duck so badly that sho she forgot everything else olse and jumped jump right off he bank and fell Into nto tho water with a a. splash h. h Fluffy Chick was all right as long Ions longas as her hell feet touched the tins ground but ut lean dear me when they left tho the bottom Fluffy Flurry Chick became terribly frightened frightened fright fright- ened and she screamed so 50 loudly for help that all the tho folks of ot the barnyard I rushed down to see tho the cause o of the racket Dear me wasn't Fluffy Chick glad when Missy White Duck caught ht hold I of ot her tiny feathers and pulled her herback herback herback shore back on 1 such a no woebegone little muo chick sho sho- was as Mama Yellow Hen led her herback herback herback I back to the chicken coop followed b by byall byall all the tho chickens and tho the ducks on the the place very every one laughing and making fun fua of oC her But nut It surely surel taught Flu Fluffy Chick a a. lesson that sho she never forgot |