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(Scene begins with an attentive mother and her small child stood by the lake, watching the birds. After telling him the name of each bird carefully, mother then points at a swan)
MOTHER: Now then, what's that bird there, Charlie?
CHILD: (eagerly and confidently) Swan!
MOTHER: (astounded and delighted that he got it right) Yes, Charley! Well DONE! That is a swan! Clever boy!
CHILD: (smiles proudly) Yes mommy.
(Mother and child start to walk away in happy silence, until child spots a pigeon pecking at a seed nearby. Child then points at the bird excitedly)
CHILD: (eagerly and confidently) Swan!
MOTHER: (looks at pigeon, then child before sighing a small, defeated sigh) Not quite, Charley...
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The innocence of a child . . . if only we could all be seen as "swans".
ReplyDeleteI don't know; swans are such pompous things, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteI've always seen myself as more of a "goose". I like geese, particularly Canada Geese. They are nice looking (without being flamboyant) and clever and brilliantly vicious; I think they're fabulous.
I'd quite like to be seen as a "goose".
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