It was deep in winter and the snow came on thick and fast and a cold wind howling. A mother duck was on the duckpond with her ducklings and quickly ushered themwith great difficulty into the yard and finaly into the barn for shelter. In the barn she wrapped her wings around her little ones to keep them warm only to realize that one was missing. She went to the barn door and called for her missing duckling. Her plaintive cries were drowned out by the wind and she feared the worst. She wanted to go out and search but knew that the rest of her brood needed her and would not survive long without her. So sadly she returned and wrapped her wings around them and cried for her lost duckling.

Out side in the terrible weather the little duckling tried to battle against the raging storm but was tiring fast ,the cold draining him of energy. The farm dog who was out rounding up the sheep and cattle heard the feeble cries of the duckling and came to his help. He picked him up carefully and carried him and dropped him up to his neck into a freshly laid cow pat and returned to herding in the other animals meaning to return later.

The warmth from the steaming pile of shit revived the duckling and soon he was warm again. He was glad to be alive and started to sing loudly. His singing attracted the attention of the local fox who was passing. The fox crept up and found the little duckling and thought a perfect little snack. He carefully grabbed the duckling by its head and started to pull it out then clean it on the newly fallen snow then ate it.

Now there are several morals to this story

1 Sometimes its your friends who drop you in it!


2 Sometimes its your enemies that get you out of it!


And most of all


3 When you are up to your neck in it it is best not to shout about it because you might make things get worse!