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Updated: June 29, 2025
"I cannot quite repeat the words as they were spoken," said stork-papa, who had listened from the roof to the report of these events, made by the learned men, and was now telling it again to his own family.
Already on the frontier of the land they had heard that Helga had caused their figures to be painted on the wall for did they not belong to her history? "That's very pretty and suggestive," said stork-papa. "But it's very little," observed stork-mamma. "They could not possibly have done less." And when Helga saw them, she rose and came on to the verandah, to stroke the backs of the storks.
One evening, stork-papa stayed out rather late, and when he came home he seemed quite busy, bustling, and important. "I have something very dreadful to tell you," said he to the stork-mamma. "Keep it to yourself then," she replied. "Remember that I am hatching eggs; it may agitate me, and will affect them." "You must know it at once," said he. "The daughter of our host in Egypt has arrived here.
When it reached the surface, a leaf spread out and unfolded itself broader and broader; close by it, a bud came out. And one morning, when stork-papa flew over the stalk, the bud opened through the power of the strong sunbeams, and in the cup of the flower lay a beautiful child a little girl looking just as if she had risen out of the bath.
And stork-papa clapped in first-rate style, and they all flew away towards the Viking's castle. In the castle every one was sunk in deep sleep. The Viking's wife had not retired to rest until it was late.
The stork brings good fortune they'll be obliged to acknowledge that at last." "You lay gold, and I lay eggs," said stork-mamma; "with you it is only once in a way, I lay eggs every year But no one appreciates what we do; I call it very mortifying." "But then we have a consciousness of our own worth, mother," replied stork-papa.
All these things were so elaborately and learnedly explained, that it was impossible for stork-papa to follow it, much less to talk about it. His thoughts on the subject quite weighed him down; he stood the whole of the following day on one leg, with half-shut eyes, thinking deeply. So much learning was quite a heavy weight for him to carry. One thing, however, the papa stork could understand.
"That's heavy to carry," thought the stork-papa, when he had the golden ring round his neck; "but gold and honour are not to be flung into the street. The stork brings good fortune; they'll be obliged to acknowledge that over yonder." "You lay gold and I lay eggs," said the stork-mamma.
But for all that we may listen to what the people said, for we have to listen to a great deal of talk in the world. But then it's an advantage to hear what went before, what has been said; and in this case we are well informed, for we know just as much about it as stork-papa. "Love gives life! the highest love gives the highest life! Only through love can his life be preserved."
One morning, when the stork-papa was flying over the stem, he saw that the power of the sun's rays had caused the bud to open, and in the cup of the flower lay a charming child a little maiden, looking as if she had just come out of a bath.
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