Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 592
w. But she loved her babies toowell to leave them like that. She seized them with her beak, and tried to drag them from the nest.But they were too heavy, and flapped and strug-gled, hindering her, for they did not understandwhat she wished to do. The flames drew nearer,the branches began to blaze.… … THE FAITHFUL MOTHER-STOKU. Yes. When Papa Stork came from the pondwith a fresh fish in his beak, there was no roofthere, no nest, no little storks,—only a heap ofashes and curling smoke. Frau Stork loved herchildren too well to desert them, and they all diedtogether. There was silence for a minute…
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