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When I say subjects I basely flatter the sumptuous taste of Madame Taverneau; it was the same subject indefinitely repeated the Fox and the Stork. How luxurious it was to sit upon a stork's beak!
They are indeed, beautifully and wisely directed, "Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming." This splendid tribute to the memory of the darling minister, has been placed at the south side of Hanover Square.
'Yes, the Dryad continued, 'the birds sing aloft there in the branches, and tell each other of strange countries they have visited; and on the only dead bough the stork has built a nest which is highly ornamental, and moreover, one gets to hear something of the land of the pyramids.
"This isn't the road," said the Stork, as she twisted her long neck and looked sharply at the queer party. "I know it," returned Dorothy, "but we have lost the Scarecrow, and are wondering how we shall get him again." "Where is he?" asked the Stork. "Over there in the river," answered the little girl. "If he wasn't so big and heavy I would get him for you," remarked the Stork.
Not for a moment did he doubt that it was a stork, and so he threw his javelin at it. A heart-rending scream pierced the air. He had struck his mother, whose cap and long streams remained nailed to the wall. Julian fled from home and never returned. He joined a horde of adventurers who were passing through the place. He learned what it was to suffer hunger, thirst, sickness and filth.
Here a silver stork stood in a pool of limpid blue; there a cherry orchard blossomed out with all the extravagant beauty of spring, and in the corner a pagoda, with sloping, red-tile roof and wide doors, proclaimed the fact that the Japanese were a people of art, even down to house building.
'Where are they going? What will happen to them? In spring, when the swallows and storks came, the fir-tree asked them, 'Do you know where they were taken? Have you met them? The swallows knew nothing of them, but the stork nodded his head thoughtfully, saying, 'I think I know. I met many new ships as I flew from Egypt; there were splendid masts on the ships. I'll wager those were they!
The ospreys and the wood pigeons used to build in it, the blue raven and even the black stork! It was early in the year; some of the nests were full of eggs, while in others the young ones were just hatched. What a flying and screaming was there! Then came the sound of the axe, blow upon blow; the forest was to be felled.
Travellers in the regions inhabited by the birds speak of the distressing effect of the continuous calls of the bereft females as they fly about in the forests during the mating season. As a high-priced adornment the Paradise is the one rival of the famous aigrette. Maribou. The Maribou which has been fashionable for a number of years past comes principally from the Maribou Stork of Africa.
"I think I shall steal their swan garbs from the two wicked princesses," said the stork-father; "then they will not be able to go to 'the wild morass' and do mischief. I shall leave the swan disguises themselves up yonder till there is some use for them." "Where could you keep them?" asked the old female stork. "In our nest near 'the wild morass," he replied.
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