All in a moment, there stood Hjalmar, in his best clothes, on

the deck of the noble ship; and immediately the weather became fine.

They sailed through the streets, round by the church, and on every

side rolled the wide, great sea. They sailed till the land

disappeared, and then they saw a flock of storks, who had left their

own country, and were travelling to warmer climates. The storks flew

one behind the other, and had already been a long, long time on the

wing. One of them seemed so tired that his wings could scarcely