Little Down is lucky. He swam in a cradle-nest and was washed ashore. To the reeds where wild ducks nested. Many ducks, the oldest among them once worked as the main character of Andersen's novel and quacked with a typically Danish accent. Of course, there were some sexual deviations. The former Gray Duck had six lovers and three husbands. They all got along well in one flock, so they reacted calmly to the appearance of another cub, even if he was naked, without a beak, and without feathers. It happens to everyone! As my wife says: no matter whose bulls gallop, the calves are all ours...