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Chapter 13 - * A flash in the pan * Short film: Education * Author: Morn kunthea

* In remote rural areas, most people are farmers and feed farm animals to meet their daily needs. In a duck shed on a duck farm, many ducklings have just hatched. The owner of the farm raises ducks for sale in the local meat market. His ducks are healthy and naturally raised. Since it is a festive season, the market needs a lot of orders for its duck farm. Every morning the farm owner throws food and chases the ducks swimming in the lake behind his farm. He counted the total number of 200 ducks, 500 baby ducklings and 1,200 duck eggs. Counting duck eggs using mechanical techniques available on the farm. The sheds are usually cleaned once a week. And a vet inspects every month.

* Newly hatched ducklings learn from their mother to swim in the lake. But one of the baby ducks couldn't swim and was afraid of the water. His siblings often tease him and laugh at him saying, "Born as a duck, if you can't swim how can you be called a duck" and the older duck brothers decided to teach his brother to be a brave baby duck. The foreground they took him swimming in the lake by biting his tail. After swimming for a while, the baby duck, who couldn't swim, lets go of its mouth bites his brother's tail and drowns in the lake. When his brothers saw this, they brought him back to the ground. They even helped him breathe emergency treatment by listening to the news on the radio that their owners often turned on the sound on the farm. All ducklings are very intelligent and agile. After waking up, his brothers asked her to learn to swim in an bucket under a tap. The older brother used his mother's knitting to knit to attach the ladder to the hook and tap. then he pulled the water tap to open it to the water.

* When the water was almost full, his other siblings jumped into the water and played happily. Some of duckling clip onto tap water spray heads and slide like skateboards in a water park. Others cling to the edge of the bucket and jump in a row. The older brothers told baby duck who couldn't swim to learn to watch them carefully so he could swim properly. Because there is less water in the bucket than in the lake, which is easy to observe. he said " just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend you do, and at some point you will. " Your initial learning was a simple flash in the pan, you can swim after failure over and over again. After listened his brother give him advice, the baby duck has the courage to swim like the brothers according to what he has observed. Finally, the baby duck managed to swim after swallowing several times and suffered severe sprains. His brothers seeing that the baby duck was successful, they clapped their hands in congratulations and threw flowers that fell near the bucket on the baby duck. Back in the shed, the ducklings told stories to their mother who listened intently and admired the encouragement from those who helped care for the baby duck when she was busy. The mother duck spread her wings and pulled her baby to rest next to her with the love and warmth of her mother. The next morning, the baby duck swam in the lake with his siblings and mother and the other flocks of ducks howling with joy in the lake.