The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its ne hopes of being a goose, and now look!—it is too beautiful to eat.
Then the woman and the swan sailed across an o many thousands of li wide, stretg their necks toward America. On her journey she cooed to the swan: "In America I will have a daughter just like me. But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husbands belch. Over there nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak only perfect Ameri English. And over there she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow! She will know my meaning, because I will give her this swan—a creature that became more than what was hoped for."
But when she arrived in the new try, the immigration officials pulled her swan away from her, leaving the woman fluttering her arms and with only one swaher for a ……（内容加载失败！）
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