The Lame Stork 
A FRIEND of mine once related how 
he had seen one of the City pigeons in 
the Guildhall yard in London with a 
wooden leg. I wonder if any of you 
have ever seen a bird with a wooden 
leg. It would look very curious, I 
think. I have never seen such a sight 
myself, but I was once told this tale 
of a lame stork which lived in Den- 
mark. Denmark is the country where, 
as you know, Hans Christian Ander- 
sen dived. And in Denmark there 
are great numbers of storks. They 
are seldom to be seén in England, 
though they are so common in other 
countries, where the people like to see 
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