THE STORK.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 22

THE STORK.

One day, in the north or a German province, some children noticed a pair of storks nesting in the roof of their house. Their home was in a lonely Dart of the country, where friends were none too many, and the child* rcn's delight was great when one of the storks allowed them to make a pet of her. But when autumn came the stork made ready to wing her way south, and tho children, sorry to see her depart, wrote a little note and tied It with some ribbon round the bird's neck. In their note they■ said the stork was a great set of theirs, to would the' people in whose country It spent the winter be very kind to It and send it back in the spring? The following day the stork set off. on her long Journey. Then something wonderful happened lust like a fairy tule. On a warm day of early spring the stork returned to Germany, and to the nest of the year before. The children soon found her and were delighted to find another note tied around the neck with a different coloured ribbon. This was. from • missionary in an outlying region of the Sudan, who had befriended the children's pet. He had been very pleased to sco the care they had for the bird, and he hoped the kindness they gave to the stork might be extended to the little native waifs undar his care, who would be glad of a little help with clothing and food. So children in countries far apart were brought together by the friendliness of a bird.