flapping them in vain, till his feet touched the rigging of the

ship, and he slided from the sails to the deck, and stood before them.

Then a sailor-boy caught him, and put him in the hen-house, with the

fowls, the ducks, and the turkeys, while the poor stork stood quite

"Just look at that fellow," said the chickens.

Then the turkey-cock puffed himself out as large as he could,

and inquired who he was; and the ducks waddled backwards, crying,

Then the stork told them all about warm Africa, of the pyramids,