Constellation:

The Ugly Short-Winged Duck

by Bill Drywater

Plot these numbers to see if you can find my constellation:
x
y

11

04

22

16

27

26

32

35

34

22

36

37

37

37

42

38

44

31

48

26

57

19

My Graphed Data

My own picture of the Ugly Short-Winged Duck:

The Ugly Short-Winged Legend

by Bill Drywater

 

A long time ago there was an egg, a lone egg whose mom had abandoned. No one cared for the egg; no one knew what kind of egg it was, until one day Coyote decided to warm the egg and hatch it.

So coyote lay on the egg to warm it.

 

Two days later, the egg hatched. It was a duck, a very ugly duck that could not fly, and no one liked the duck but Coyote.

 

All the other ducks teased the little duck because he was ugly and his wings were too short to fly, but the little duck knew that one day his wings would get bigger as he grew. He told the other ducks, "Just wait. One day I'm gonna fly so high, I'm not gonna come back down and I'll never touch ground again."

 

As the years passed the duck started to get long beautiful wings, then one day he flew and he flew. He flew so high he never came down. He never touched ground again, but at night the other ducks looked up and saw the little duck in the stars; and he looked beautiful.

 

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