storklets

Updated: May 23, 2025

And the wooden mantel in the great locked library, and which was opened and dusted twice a year the books, not the mantel did it not support a life-sized portrait of the family bird done in wood, with three diminutive storklets clamoring to be fed, their open mouths out-thrust between their mother's breast and the top edge of the fish-basket, enwreathed by a more than graceful ribbon bearing the inscription, "We feed the hungry" or words to that effect?

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women