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bearance that ensures her protection. In Strasbourg, 

 Storks' nests may be seen amongst the chimneys of the 

 most populous parts of the city, - nay the Storks are pur- 

 posely invited, as in France at one time carriage wheels 

 ■were placed on the house tops for these birds to build in. 

 A similar practice held in Alsace in Germany. 



The attachment of Storks to their young has been noted, 

 as well as the audible joy and gratulations often expressed 

 together with a flapping of the wings, when after their 

 long migrations these birds return to the old nests and ha- 

 bitations. The young Storks are said to cherish and feed 

 their aged parents. To Egypt, when by the subsidence of 

 its waters the Nile leaves ample supply in the soft mud, of 

 ■worms, fish and reptiles, the stork loves to migrate ; and to 

 Asia in the mountains around Antioch, quitting for a time 

 the fens and marshes of the northern latitudes. In these 

 climes, however, the native bora Stork is not always mi- 

 gratory. They often pass from Egypt to Asia, and im- 

 mense flights of Storks, which have occupied hours in pas- 

 sing, have been observed by travellers. The Stork has a 

 high reputation — scriptural, classical, and mediaeval authori- 

 ties are full of allusions to this bird. " The Stork, worker of 

 adventure," says Chaucer ; Bruin observed carved in a 

 stone amidst the ruins of Persepolis a nest of 

 Storks ; Juvenal in an obscure and almost untrans- 

 latable line. Sat. 1, verse 115 observes, " Uuaeque 

 salutato crepitat Concordia nido," in which he is 

 supposed to allude to the Stork, or rather to its 

 nest, as containing the only worshippers in the deserted 

 temple of Concord during the reign of Tragan. Juvenal 

 was a man of peace, and hated the warlike propensities 

 of the Emperor. The Stork is represented on one of the 

 coins of Hadrian. I may here give a bit of antiquarian 

 gossip, a stray waif from the myths of the North ; it is a 

 pretty little tradition about the Stork. 



Hans Christian Anderson has made a tale from it. When 



