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KRONBORG.
Chap. XVIII.
matter. Mrs. Stork was compelled to rise and exhibit
her children. “ Can they be mine ? ” exclaimed the
stork. “Happen what may, I will never recognise
them.” On her side Mrs. Stork protested and fluttered,
and vowed it was all witchcraft—never had stork
possessed so faithful a wife before. Alas ! alas! how
seldom the gentle sex meets with justice in this world
when judged by man or, in this case, by stork kind.
The judges looked wondrous wise, consulted, and then
of a sudden, without pronouncing sentence, regardless
of her shrieks for mercy, fell on the injured Mrs. Stork,
and pecked her to death with their long sharp beaks.
As for the young owls, they would not defile their bills
by touching them; so they kicked them out of the
nest, and they were killed in the tumble. The father
stork, broken-hearted, quitted his abode, and never
again returned to his former building-place. Six years
have elapsed and the nest still remains empty—so stated
my informant.
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