. The story of hedgerow and pond . ■»J^; . The Lame Stork A FRIEND of mine once related howhe had seen one of the City pigeons inthe Guildhall yard in London with awooden leg. I wonder if any of youhave ever seen a bird with a woodenleg. It would look very curious, Ithink. I have never seen such a sightmyself, but I was once told this taleof a lame stork which lived in Den-mark. Denmark is the country where,as you know, Hans Christian Ander-sen lived. And in Denmark thereare great numbers of storks. Theyare seldom to be seen in England,though they are so common in othercountries, where the
. The story of hedgerow and pond . ■»J^; . The Lame Stork A FRIEND of mine once related howhe had seen one of the City pigeons inthe Guildhall yard in London with awooden leg. I wonder if any of youhave ever seen a bird with a woodenleg. It would look very curious, Ithink. I have never seen such a sightmyself, but I was once told this taleof a lame stork which lived in Den-mark. Denmark is the country where,as you know, Hans Christian Ander-sen lived. And in Denmark thereare great numbers of storks. Theyare seldom to be seen in England,though they are so common in othercountries, where the people like to see223. The Lame Stork them standing in the fields and on thehouse-tops ; and when the storks choosethe roofs of their houses on which tomake their nest, they are very who molested a stork in anyway would most certainly get intotrouble. Now, if they lived in Englandthey would not be thought so much of being protected and encour-aged, every boy who saw a great whitestork, with its red beak and long red legs,standing on the roof on one leg, wouldwant to throw a stone at it, and biggerboys who ought to know better wouldcome out and shoot it, and put it in aglass case, where it wouldnt look half sowell as when flying about and feedingin the fields and meadows. So the storks, who know very wellwhen they are well off, very wisely stop224 The Lame Stork away, and only go to those countrieswhere they can live in peace andcomfort. In Denmark the people Hke put up httle houses for the starlingsto live in. Sometimes in the orardensyou see, perched up on a post, a ti
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