One day, the kind duck went out carrying a strange bag in her hand that could contain everything inside it, anything, whether big or small. The duck walked every day in the street carrying her strange bag and saying: I am a duck and I have feathers. Who will give me a piece of bread?
While the duck was searching for food in the street, she found a bag full of money and gold. The duck called out loudly: Whose money is this? Who has lost their money? A dishonest man heard her and coveted the money.
He said to the duck: It is my money that I lost. The duck believed the greedy man’s words and gave him the bag of gold. The man took it happily and returned to his house. He said to himself laughing: I deceived the duck and took the money.
The duck continued her walk searching for food, saying: Praise be to Allah, I have returned the lost money to its owner. The wind heard her and said to her: The man deceived you. He is dishonest, and this money is not his money. You must recover it from him.
The duck heard the wind’s words, became sad, and decided to go to the dishonest man’s house and recover the money. She said to him: Return to me the money you took, oh evil man. It is not your money. Return it until I search for its owner. The dishonest man shouted in her face and ran after her, almost catching her, but she escaped from his hand and ran.
The duck kept saying to him from afar: Return the money you took. It is not your money. Return it until I search for its owner. The dishonest man closed his door, and she kept walking saying the same words, angry and sad.
When the mouse heard her, he asked her about the reason for her anger. She told him her story with the dishonest man. He said to her: Take me with you in the bag, and I may help you recover the money from the dishonest man. The mouse entered the bag, and the duck walked with her bag.
She met a wooden ladder, learned the story from her, and said to her: Take me with you in the bag, and I may help you recover the money. The ladder entered the bag, and the duck kept walking until she met a waterskin. She learned from her the story of the man who stole the money. She said to her: Take me with you in the bag, and I may help you recover the money from the dishonest man. She also entered the bag.
The duck kept walking on her way until she returned to the dishonest man’s house, carrying in her bag the mouse, the ladder, and the waterskin. She stood in front of his house and said to him: Return to me the money you took. It is not your money. Return it until I search for its owner.
The dishonest man grabbed the duck and put her in the chicken coop. He said to her: I have caught you, and tomorrow I will slaughter you and eat you with the delicious molokhia. Show me how you will recover your money now? The man left her and entered his house. The mouse came out of the duck’s bag and gnawed the wood of the coop.
The duck came out and returned to knock on the man’s door again. He was very surprised how the duck came out, but he soon took her and threw her into the well. The ladder came out of the duck’s bag and went to her in the well. She climbed it and came out again to knock on the dishonest man’s door and ask for the money to search for its owner.
The man was surprised and said to himself: How did the duck come out of the coop? Is she a bewitched duck? He decided to throw her into the oven to burn and rest from her. But quickly, the waterskin came out of the duck’s bag and extinguished the oven’s fire. The duck returned to knock on the dishonest man’s door. He was terrified when he saw her, thinking she was a bewitched duck. He entered the house quickly, shouting: A bewitched duck, a bewitched duck. He quickly brought the bag of money and threw it, then quickly closed his house door. The duck laughed at him, took the bag of money, and went to search for its owner.
Then the mouse, the wooden ladder, and the waterskin came out of the duck’s bag, and they kept laughing at the dishonest man’s situation. The duck thanked them and went to search for the owner of the money to give him his lost money.