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But the affection which they thee their parents 
is very remarkablee—When they are weak and 
helplefs, through age or accident, they bring them 
food, and return thofe cares and attentions which 
their parents fhewed them when they were young. 
The Greeks formerly lived in Turkey in Eu- 
rope; they were the wifeft people then in the 
world; they made a law, obliging children to 
take care of their parents, when they beeame old 
or helplefs; and this. law was named after the 
Stork, in honour of that very good example which 
the Storks fet to men. Ee, . 
In many countries it was dered S a very 
great crime to kill a scihedee they are 
fo et I to mankind in déftroying’ eptiles and 
infe@ts: for in damp places thefé infeéts would in- 
creafe fo faft as to be very troublefome. 
After the waters of the Nile return within their 
banks, the Storks appear in fuch numbers as almoft 
to cover the country. They come to feed upen 
thofe infects and reptiles, which are produced in 
vaft quantities in the mud; and when the Nile 
‘overflows, then they pafs from Egypt to Europe. 
Herons have the middle claw toothed like a 
faw on the inner fide. This is a contrivance to . 
enable them to hold faft the fith, upon which they 
1a, for fith are very flippery. 
‘ B 3 - Herons 

