If, subsequently, he had any reason to congratulate himself on the result of his conduct, it was that, like the stork in the fable, after be had thrust his head into the mouth of the wolf, he was allowed to draw it out again in safety.

The Fox lapped it up with great relish, but the Stork with her long bill tried in vain to partake of the savoury broth.

This sentiment is wide-spread among our people, and perhaps it is not too fanciful to predict that it will some day expand itself to a cultus like that of the Egyptian APIS, or, more properly, the Stork of Japan.

No stork at nine.

The Tamanaquas of South America have a tradition that the human race sprang from the fruits of the date palm after the Mexican age of water.[20] Again, our English nursery fable of the parsley-bed, in which little strangers are discovered, is perhaps, "A remnant of a fuller tradition, like that of the woodpecker among the Romans, and that of the stork among our Continental kinsmen."

Some asserted that Manuel's tale in itself contained elements of improbability: others declared that Queen Alianora, who was far deeplier versed in the magic of the Apsarasas than was Dom Manuel, could just as well have summoned the stork without his assistance.

At the time of writing the reticulated python is said to be leading the whale-headed stork by a matter of three rats.

A few houses or clusters of houses stood here and there like reefs amid the billowy green, and the minaretsone of them with a nest of young storks on its very summitrose like the masts of sunken ships.

A Fox invited a Stork to dinner, at which the only fare provided was a large flat dish of soup.

Did he give us the beautiful stork above On the chimney-top, with its large, round nest? Gottlieb.