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title: Opening, part 9 — The Orange Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2
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# Opening, part 9 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/101/) — Something pink looked at him from the side of a hill.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/102/) — He thought he would fly towards it and see what it was.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/103/) — Oh, how glorious it felt to be rushing through the air, wheeling first one way and then the other!
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/104/) — He had never thought that flying could be like that!
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/105/) — The duckling was almost sorry when he drew near the pink cloud and found it was made up of apple blossoms growing beside a cottage whose garden ran down to the banks of the canal.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/106/) — He fluttered slowly to the ground and paused for a few minutes under a thicket of syringas, and while he was gazing about him, there walked slowly past a flock of the same beautiful birds he had seen so many months ago.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/107/) — Fascinated, he watched them one by one step into the canal, and float quietly upon the waters as if they were part of them.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/108/) — 'I will follow them,' said the duckling to himself; 'ugly though I am, I would rather be killed by them than suffer all I have suffered from cold and hunger, and from the ducks and fowls who should have treated me kindly.'
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/109/) — And flying quickly down to the water, he swam after them as fast as he could.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/110/) — It did not take him long to reach them, for they had stopped to rest in a green pool shaded by a tree whose branches swept the water.
- [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/111/) — And directly they saw him coming some of the younger ones swam out to meet him with cries of welcome, which again the duckling hardly understood.
- [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/112/) — He approached them glad, yet trembling, and turning to one of the older birds, who by this time had left the shade of the tree, he said:

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