The stork and the swallows came back from their long journey, for they thought of no danger; and, behold, when they arrived, the nest was burnt, the habitations of men were burnt, the hedges were all in disorder, and everything seemed gone, and the enemy's horses were stamping in the old graves.
There is a stork's nest on the ridge of the gable, for we cannot do without the stork.
Then I rested by Borreby, near the glorious wood, where the heron made his nest, the haunt of the wood-pigeons, the blue-birds, and the black stork.
Birds from the Polar regions came flying here, and of course the stork and the swallow were not absent.
The first stork pair who related it lived at the time it happened, and had their summer residence on the rafters of the Viking's1 house, which stood near the wild moorlands of Wendsyssell; that is, to speak more correctly, the great moorheath, high up in the north of Jutland, by the Skjagen peak.
'Yes,' continued the dryad, 'the birds sing up above in the branches, and talk to each other about the beautiful fields they have visited in foreign lands; and on one of the withered boughs a stork has built his nest,—it is beautifully arranged, and besides it is pleasant to hear a little about the land of the pyramids.
The nest of the stork was empty, but ripe fruit still hung on the wild apple-tree, although the leaves had fallen.
"It will come when the stork returns, but he is very uncertain, and here in the town no one knows anything about it.
" The swallows knew nothing, but the stork, after a little reflection, nodded his head, and said, "Yes, I think I do.
The stork walking about on his long red legs chattered in the Egyptian language, which he had learnt from his mother.
The stork and the fox did not get along very well.
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 bewildered amongst them.
It had been sawn off at the top, and a stork had built his nest upon it; and he stood in this nest clapping with his beak.
And then he related to her about the stork who brings the beautiful children from the rivers.
And then he related to her about the stork who brings the beautiful children from the rivers.
"I can lie up there," said Little Claus, as he saw the roof; "it will make a famous bed, but I hope the stork will not fly down and bite my legs;" for on it stood a living stork, whose nest was in the roof.
