The Lame Stork 
You remember, perhaps, Hans Ander- 
sen’s tale of the storks ; the father stork 
stood on one leg on the house-roof, 
standing sentry, while the mother stork 
tended her four young ones in the nest. 
Such a sight must have been a common 
experience with Hans Andersen, strange 
as it would seem in youreyes. Well, in 
such a nest on a farmhouse in Denmark 
lived four young storks, carefully looked 
after by the father and mother stork, 
and objects of the greatest interest in 
the eyes of the good people of the 
house. But, in spite of every care, in 
the best-regulated families accidents 
will happen, and it befell one day that 
one of these young storks broke its leg. 
How it happened I don't know. 
Very likely while they were at lessons, 
learning to fly, so that they might pass 
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