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The Lame Stork 
suitable material after being trimmed a 
little to the right thickness. The invalid 
was carefully tended in the house, and 
fed until it was able to hop about the 
ground. It could even fly a few yards 
at a time, but was never able to circle 
up, up, into the blue sky until out of 
human sight, as its brothers and sisters 
delighted to do on a warm day. And 
when the time came for the storks to de- 
part for the winter, and travel to warmer 
countries, poor Peter, for that was what 
they called it, had to remain behind. 
Dismally it ‘klappered’ when it saw 
all the other storks fly off in a great 
company one day. ‘Klappering’ is the 
storks’ language. They have no voice, 
but they clatter their great red horny 
beaks together and make a loud noise, 
which can be heard a long way. It 
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