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The saga of Beethoven the duck began one summer day, when my brother Joel and I were in the process riding down the hill in front of our house as fast as possible on bikes. I was riding my newly purchased Free Spirit, while my brother was riding his old French ten speed. As was the custom, we raced down the first hill, across the field and down the second hill to the river. Needless to say, we stopped once before the river. On this day, however, upon walking our bikes back up the hill, my brother noticed an egg lying in the grass. There were also bloody pieces of another egg, along with the shell. My brother suggested that we retrieve our father, which is what we did, and my father, anxious to try out the electrical incubator he was to revcieve in a few days in the mail, snatched up the egg an put it in the refrigerator. When the incubator arrived some days later, the egg was placed in it, but the rolling machine didn't work, so it had to be done by hand. You may be familiar with Chuck Berry's "Roll over Beethoven," as was my father, and whenever it was
time to rotate the egg, he would say something about rolling Beethoven over, which became the egg's name. Eventually, we began hearing peeps from the egg, and soon realized we were going to have a duckling on our hands in the near future. When he hatched, it was the early morning, so I was the only one awake. I was there, looking at him when he came out of his shell, and so I was from that day forth, Beethoven's mother. Beethoven had imprinted on me, and there was nothing anyone could do to change the fact that he believed I was his mother. About a week after his being born, my family and I moved to my grandmother's house, a farmhouse on a fifty-acre farm, to help with all of the barn and yard sales going on. We took Beethoven with us to keep him from feeling too abandoned. At my grandmother's I was free to do whatever I wanted to, and I spent almost the entire time pampering the duck. I played records for it, set up a heat lamp, and played with him. His yolk sack had not come of at birth, so he was a bit unsightly. The duck would follow me anywhere. If
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