The Trials of an Adopted Mother

Gourmesh spends all day looking for worms, with her head in the ground. Boes tells her to stop digging for worms,He wants her to keep an egg warm so that a chick can hatch. Gourmesh does not like the idea, but she has got no choice and sits on the egg. The egg hatches and a cute chick appears, but it does not look at all like its mother. Actually it is a swan’s chick. Before long, the swan’s chick grows up to be a full—grown swan. It swims in the river and flies in the sky, but of course Gourmesh cannot. Seeing that, Boes tries to teach Gourmesh how to swim and fly...

Boes vraagt de struisvogel een ei uit te broeden. Er komt een zwanenjong uit dat zwemt en vliegt. De struisvogel kan dat allemaal niet, dus Boes leert het hem.