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Egyptia's strand!" sang the daughter of the Nile, in her swan's plumage, as from the upper air she caught sight of her native land, a narrow, golden, wavy strip on the shores of the Nile; the other birds espied it also and hastened their flight. "I can smell the Nile mud and the wet frogs," said the stork-mamma, "and I begin to feel quite hungry.
"So you see," he continued, "that the princess is not dead, for she must have sent her little one up here; and now I have found a home for her." "Ah, I said it would be so from the first," replied the stork-mamma; "but now think a little of your own family. Our travelling time draws near, and I sometimes feel a little irritation already under the wings.
"I should like to take away the swan's feathers from the two faithless princesses," said the stork-papa; "then, at any rate, they will not be able to fly up again to the wild moor and do mischief. I'll hide the two swan-feather suits up there, till somebody has occasion for them." "But where do you intend to hide them?" asked stork-mamma. "Up in our nest in the moor," answered he.
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