Atondido Stories
gobbled up the Worm. The boy was very angry and he went to
the man who owned the Duck, and said, "Your Duck ate up my
pet Worm. I want my Worm." The man offered to pay him what-
ever price he asked, but the boy said, "I do not want your price. I
want my Worm." But the man said, "How can I give you your
Worm when my Duck has eaten it up? It is gone for ever." And
the boy said, "It is not gone. It is in the Duck's belly. So I must
have the Duck." Then to avoid further trouble the man gave
Thick-head the Duck, for he thought to himself, "What is the use
of arguing with a fool."
The boy took the Duck home and kept it in a little pen near
his home with a low fence around it. And he tied a great weight
to its foot so that it could not fly away. He was quite happy
again, for he thought, "Now I have both my Worm and the
Duck." But one day a Fox came prowling along looking for food.
He saw the fat Duck tied by the foot in the little pen. And he
said, "What good fortune! There is a choice meal for me," and in
a twinkling he was over the fence. The Duck quacked and made
a great noise, but she was soon silenced. The Fox had just fin-
ished eating up the Duck when the boy, who had heard the
quacking, came running out of the house. The Fox was smacking
his lips after his good meal, and he was too slow in getting away.
The boy fell to beating him with a stout club and soon killed him
and threw his body into the yard behind the house. And he
thought, "That is not so bad. Now I have my Worm and the
Duck and the Fox."
That night an old Wolf came through the forest in search of
food. He was very hungry, and in the bright moonlight he saw
the dead Fox lying in the yard. He pounced upon it greedily and
devoured it until not a trace of it was left. But the boy saw him
before he could get away, and he came stealthily upon him and
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