Wally's Journey
Wally hasn’t been born yet so he does not know his journey is about
to began even before he is hatched. As Mommy Duck sets on her nest,
the rain is coming down harder and harder but she is secure in the
bushes just off the pond. She checks her three little eggs to make
sure they are nice and warm. Then she hears it! The big dozer is
pushing dirt closer and closer to her little nest, luckily for her the
eggs are small and she can carry them inside her bill, she takes one
and comes back for the other as fast as she can, but as she comes back
for the third egg, it is no where to be found, it is covered with
dirt. She flies round and round but no egg. She then knows it is gone
forever, her little baby duck. She goes off to keep the other two warm
and safe.
The
dozer man did not see the nest of baby ducks but he did see the pond
and he covered it with dirt and filled it in. The pond is warm and the
steam is still coming up from it. Wally is being tossed and turned but
he is all nice and warm inside the pond covered with dirt so he does
not know what is going on. He knows it's about time for him to come
out of the shell and he is all excited about seeing his mother and his
brothers and sisters.
Serria
is sitting in the living room just looking out of the window, she sees
the Duck flying round and round, she watches it and she is concerned.
"Mommy can I go outside" she asked? "No", said her
Mother. "It's still raining, after it stops you can". She
sat there and just watched, finally it flew away. As soon as the rain
stopped, she put her little boots on and her rain coat and off she
went. The pond was gone but there was something white sticking
up from where it used to be, she stepped a little closer to look as
she reached for it. She sank up to her knees and she screamed for
help. Her brother Dawson had gone to check on her. When he saw her, he
grabbed her by the coat and started pulling. Serria hung onto the egg.
Dawson screamed for Mom. She heard him yelling, she was feeding Shanna.
Mom grabbed Shanna out of her chair and headed for the pond. She
handed Shanna to Dawson and grabbed Serria and ran for the house.
Serria was covered with mud, she looked so funny but Mom wasn’t
laughing. "Honey", she said you could have fallen in deeper
and gotten hurt. Don’t go out there anymore". Then she
saw it. "What is that honey, what have you got?" Serria
reached it to her Mom. "It's an egg Mommy" she said, "a
duck egg. I saw the Mommy flying round and round but she couldn’t
save her baby". Dawson looked at the egg and he put Shanna down.
Shanna ran for the egg, "Ball" she said, "play
ball." "No!" screamed Serria "its not
a ball baby it's an egg with a tiny duck in it." Dawson
said we have to keep it warm or it will die". Serria begged Mom,
"Please!" she said "let me keep it, Please?"
Mom said "okay, but with Dawson’s help and you have to put it
where Shanna can’t reach it."
Serria
got a shoe box and put some cloth in it and put it up high to wait for
the little egg to hatch. She watched it every day. "Mommy why did
daddy have to fill the pond and tear down all our trees?"
"Well," Mom said, "because Daddy wants to clear some
land and make the pond bigger so it will hold more ducks, he didn’t
know there were any ducks left out there, most of them have all flown
south for the winter. We will have more room for more ducks when the
pond is bigger."
Serria
is watching the little egg and she sees in it a small crack. Wally
looks through the crack and he sees a face with a big smile on it. He
knows it's about time. He's getting to big for this little shell. He
squirms and squirms and then it happen, he's out! He is so tiny.
Serria gets a bigger box and day after day she watches him grow.
It's
summer now and it's time to take him out side. Dawson takes him to the
barn and goes to the hay loft. He knows Wally has wings but he's
never seen him spread them. He goes to the open door on the loft and
lets Wally out. Into the air he went and then down, into the large
stack of hay at the bottom. Serria starts screaming..."No, Dawson
hes not ready yet." Serria made some wings but she made
them out of Dawsons favorite kite. He was real upset so he told her he
would help her, and Dawson made paper wings and each of them took
turns jumping from the hay loft with Wally in their arms trying to
show him. Wally is just happy to be playing with them, he has no
intention of flying. It looks kinda scary to him, so far up like that.
One day they couldn’t find Wally but they heard him quacking and
then they heard a splashing noise, he had fallen in the camode, he had
wanted to play in the water and the lid had come down on him, he was
so funny looking but as he flapped his wings trying to get out Serria
saw them, four little black feathers, they were so pretty but they
were under his wings.
Wally
does not quite know what he is, then one day he was sitting by the
window in a little mesh cage because after the little camode thing
they thought it was best and safe for him, he heard a noise, it was a
quacking noise just like the noise he makes. He then realized he is a
duck, but where is his Mommy? Why does she not come and get him? He is
happy with Serria and Dawson but he wants his real Mommy. How will he
know who his Mommy is?
