The document tells the story of a mischievous duck in rhyming Portuguese text. It describes the duck coming and going, putting its feet here and there. Then it lists the duck's antics, which include painting a jug, bothering a chicken and duck, jumping off a perch onto a horse's foot and getting kicked. It continues recounting the duck's adventures, including fathering a rooster, eating jenipapo and getting choked, falling in a well and breaking a bowl. By the end, it says the duck was so troublesome that it ended up in the stewpot.