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Updated: June 4, 2025
"You will get no thanks for what you propose doing," said the stork-mother; "but you are the master, and must please yourself. I have nothing to say except at hatching-time." At the Viking's castle near "the wild morass," whither the storks were flying in the spring, the little girl had received her name.
"Shall we go much further into the country?" "There is nothing more worth seeing," replied the stork-mother. "Beyond this luxuriant neighbourhood there is nothing but wild forests, where the trees grow close to each other, and are still more closely entangled by prickly creeping plants, weaving such a wall of verdure, that only the elephant, with his strong clumsy feet, can there tread his way.
Alas! never will she return to the land of Egypt." And they both wept bitterly; and the old stork-father, when he heard it, rubbed his bill until it was quite sore. "Lies and deceit!" he cried. "I should like, above all things, to run my beak into their breasts." "And break it off," said the stork-mother; "you would look remarkably well then.
All this was well known to the stork-father and the stork-mother; and now, though rather late, we also know it. We know that the mud-king dragged her down with him, and that, as far as regarded her home, she was dead and gone; only the wisest of them all said, like the stork-mother, "She can take care of herself;" and, knowing no better, they waited to see what would turn up.
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