The Lame Stork 
people leave a flat place for the storks to 
build their nest on. 
This seems to me much more sensible 
than trying to kill all the birds within 
sight, with stones, catapults, slings, bows 
and arrows, crossbows, pistols, air-guns, 
traps, guns, rifles, and cther weapons, 
and never letting any living thing have 
a moment's peace. For after all a bird 
not only does a great deal of good, but 
looks ever so much prettier alive than 
stuffed and stuck up in a lopsided fashion 
in a box with a glass front, in a position 
it never put itself into when alive. The 
feathers are all disarranged and rough, 
covered with dustand moth-eaten, and the 
horrible glass eyes glare in an unnatural 
fashion. Who would look twice at such 
a monstrosity when they could see the 
living grace and beauty of a live bird ? 
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