3. • IN A WONDERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL FOREST, THERE WAS A LARGE LAKE AND WITHIN, AND
AROUND, LIVED MANY ANIMALS OF ALL KINDS. AMONG ALL OF THEM STOOD A LARGE
WHITE SWAN WITH A LONG AND BRIGHT FEATHERS, ADORNED WITH A BEAUTY
UNSURPASSED AND IT WAS CONSIDERED THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SWAN IN THE WORLD. IT WAS
SO BEAUTIFUL IT HAD WON ALL BEAUTY CONTESTS WHICH HAD BEEN SUBMITTED, AND THAT
MADE INCREASINGLY STROLLED MORE AND MORE PROUD, DESPISING ALL OTHER ANIMALS,
AND EVEN REFUSED TO TALK TO THEM, AS IT WAS NOT WILLING TO BE LOOKED UPON WITH
ANIMALS FOR WERE SO UGLY AND UNPLEASANT. SUCH WAS THE DEGREE OF VANITY THAT
HAD THE ANIMALS WERE FED UP WITH HIM AND ONE DAY A LITTLE PORCUPINE DECIDED TO
TEACH HIM A LESSON.
4.
5. • HE WENT TO THE SWAN, AND BEFORE ALL SAID IT WAS NOT SO BEAUTIFUL THAT IF HE WON
ALL THE CONTESTS WAS BECAUSE THE JURORS WERE INFLUENCED BY HIS FAME, AND
EVERYONE KNEW HE WAS A SMALL PORCUPINE BEAUTIFUL. THEN THE INFURIATED SWAN, AND
BETWEEN LAUGHTER AND SCORN HE SAID, "BUT THAT BULLSHIT YOU'RE SAYING, I OF THEE I
WON A CONTEST WITH THE JURY YOU WANT." "OKAY, I AGREE, WE ARE ON SATURDAY," SAID
THE PORCUPINE, AND TURNING AROUND WALKED AWAY VERY PROUD, WITHOUT TIME TO
SAY NO MORE SWAN.
6.
7. • THIS SATURDAY WAS AN EVENT IN THE FOREST AND ALL WENT TO SEE THE CONTEST, THE
SWAN WAS WASHED INTO THE LAKE WITH GREAT CARE AS THEIR WHITE FEATHERS SHONE
LIKE THE SUN ITSELF DRIED. THE SWAN WAS GOING TERRIBLY CONFIDENT AND PROUD, UNTIL
SHE SAW WHO WAS ON THE JURY: WEASELS, HAMSTERS, MICE AND A BADGER. HE QUICKLY
REALIZED THAT BEAUTY DEPENDED ON WHO THE LOOK AND THAT UGLY PORCUPINE FOR
ANIMALS THAT FORMED THE JURY WAS BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE HE WAS LIKE THEM, AND THAT HE
AND ALL HIS MAJESTY NOT FOUND IT MINIMALLY ATTRACTIVE, SO THE PORCUPINE WON
CLEARLY THE COMPETITION, LEAVING THE TEARFUL AND HUMILIATED SWAN, BUT LEARNING A
LESSON HE WOULD NEVER FORGET, AND FROM THAT MOMENT WAS KIND TO ALL ANIMALS,
TALKING TO THEM AND HELPING THEM AS HE COULD.
8.
9. • WITH ALL THIS THE SWAN AND THE PORCUPINE WERE GREAT FRIENDS AND WERE OFTEN SEEN
WALKING AND LAUGHING SITTING IN LAKE SHORE. ONE DAY THE ANIMALS GATHERED AND
TOLD THE FILM HAD WON A NEW COMPETITION, ONE THAT MADE HIM HAPPIER AND
PROUDER THAN WAS THAT OF ALL OTHERS WHO HAD WON BEFORE: THE REWARD FOR
HUMILITY.
