Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 209
more agile. I do not know, answered the Stork, medi-tatively, whether my family would altogetherapprove of my entering into the lists with such avulgar creature as yourself. Here he shut oneeye, and looked reflectively with the other at a frogthat sat on a tussock near by. Still, I recollecthat one… … THE STORK WAS AHEAD ! influence of such a feeling that the Crane burstforth one day: And what are you that you should boast?You have blue blood in your veins, indeed ! Per-haps it is that blue blood that makes you so slug-gish and stupid. The Stork meditated a long while over thisspeech ; finally,…
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