The Lame Stork 
them standing in the fields and on the 
house-tops ; and when the storks choose 
the roofs of their houses on which to 
make their nest, they are very pleased. 
Anybody who molested a stork in any 
way would most certainly get into 
trouble. Now, if they lived in England 
they would not be thought so much of. 
Instead of being protected and encour- 
aged, every boy who saw a great white 
stork, with its red beak and long red legs, 
standing on the roof:on one leg, would 
want to throw a stone at it, and bigger 
boys who ought to know better would 
come out and shoot it, and put it in a 
glass case, where it wouldn’t look half so 
well as when flying about and feeding 
in the fields and meadows. 
So the storks, who know very well 
when they are well off, very wisely stop 
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