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Updated: July 19, 2025
It so happened one day that Teenchy Duck was paddling in the water near the river's edge when she saw a fine purse filled with gold. At once she began to flap her wings and cry: "Quack! quack! Who has lost his beautiful money? Quack! quack! Who has lost his beautiful money?" Just at that moment the Prince of the Seven Golden Cows passed along the road.
"What are you doing here?" said the River, in astonishment, "and why are you crying so? When I saw you this morning you seemed very happy." "Ah!" said Teenchy Duck, "would you believe it? I have not eaten since yesterday." "And why not?" asked the sympathetic River. "You saw me find the purse of gold," said Teenchy Duck, "and you saw the Prince seize it.
The Ladder immediately came out of the satchel, and leaned against the walls of the well. Teenchy Duck came up the rounds, singing: "Quack! quack! Give me back my beautiful money!" Everybody was astonished, and the Prince's wife kept saying: "Give the witch her money." "They would say that I am afraid of a Teenchy Duck," said the Prince of the Seven Golden Cows. "I will never give it up."
The Ladder was soon in the satchel with Brother Fox and Brother Wolf, and Teenchy Duck went on her way, following the tracks of the Prince of the Seven Golden Cows, and always crying: "Quack! quack! Give me back my beautiful money!" Going along and crying thus, Teenchy Duck came to her best and oldest friend, the River.
Teenchy Duck at once ran to her master, and told him what had happened. When her master learned the value of what Teenchy Duck had found, and the trick that had been played on her by the Prince of the Seven Golden Cows, he went into a rage. "Why, you big simpleton!" he exclaimed, "you find money and you do not bring it to us!
Then the River got into the satchel by the side of the other friends of Teenchy Duck. She went on her journey, keeping her eyes on the ground, so as not to lose sight of the tracks of the thief, but still crying for her beautiful money. On her way she came to a Bee-Hive, which had a mind to laugh because Teenchy Duck was carrying such a burden. "Hey, my poor Teenchy Duck!
Teenchy Duck finds a Purse of Gold They had never been able to save a single penny. They had no farm, not even a garden. They had nothing but a little Duck that walked around on her two feet every day singing the song of famine. "Quack! quack! Who will give me a piece of bread? Quack! quack! Who will give me a piece of bread?" This little duck was so small that she was named Teenchy Duck.
What a big fat satchel you have there," said the Bee-Hive. "I'm not in the humour for joking, my dear," said Teenchy Duck. "Why are you so sad?" "I have been very unfortunate, good little people," said Teenchy Duck, addressing herself to the Bees, and then she told her story. "Shall we go with you?" asked the Bees. "Yes, yes!" exclaimed Teenchy Duck.
Everyone thought that this was the end of Teenchy Duck, but she had had time to cry out: "Oh! my dear friend River, come to my assistance, or I shall be roasted." The River rushed out and quenched the fire and cooled the oven. When the Prince went to see what was left of Teenchy Duck, she met him and began to repeat her familiar song: "Quack! quack! Give me back my beautiful money!"
"I have lost it," cried the Prince of the Seven Golden Cows, and then he seized the purse full of money that Teenchy Duck held in her bill, and went on his way. The poor Puddle Duck was so astonished at this that she could scarcely stand on her feet. "Well, well!" she exclaimed, "that rich lord has kept all for himself and given me nothing. May he be destroyed by a pestilence!"
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