Once upon a time a little yellow duck swam around the pond. As it swam, it wondered a lot about what it would be like to fly away from home. It looked up at the big blue sky and wondered if there was an end to it. So the duck decided to go into the dirty Cedar River and swam until he reached Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Then the duck met a girl duck, whom he later married. So then they swam past Quaker Oats and then they met a frog with a broken leg, who told them to beware of a swan bearing the name of Mac who often flew in their neck of the woods.
Mac the swan is given over to violence and loves to break the legs of everyone who may approach him.
Mac the Swan was violent so they decided to swim away from Mac and they made it to a friendly group of geese.
Our hero duck, whose name is Digory, approached the geese with a friendly quaaack, as his girl duck wife, Deanna, watched nervously; she had not quickly forgotten the brutishness of Mac the Swan.
It was as well she had not forgotten for Mac was even now preparing to chase after the birds who he had considered had "escaped his patch".But most fortunately for our heroes Digory and Deanna, a sudden clap of thunder which seemd to come out of nowhere, frightened Mac away.