" Then the stork took the floor and rattled from his beak, "There are indeed beings between fish and birds.
The birds screamed as loud as they could, and one of the greatest of them hacked him with its beak over the eye so that the blood ran down, and it was at first thought the eye had been destroyed; but it had not been injured after all.
He clapped with his beak, and the Mother-stork clapped with hers.
And over the buried town fly the birds of heaven, the small and the great; they twitter and they sing as best they may, each bird with his beak.
Its short, strong beak was open, ready to bite, and on its red throat were short feathers, like stubble.
I am certainly no judge of your singing so I keep my beak shut, which is better than talking nonsense, as others do.
" And then the stork lifted the little girl out of the flower-cup, flew to the castle, picked a hole with his beak in the bladder-covered, window, and laid the beautiful child in the bosom of the Viking's wife.
As she was flying upon the roost, she plucked herself with her beak, and a little feather came out.
On the car of Thespis he sat in the guise of a chattering raven, and flapped his black wings, smeared with the lees of wine; over the sounding harp of Iceland swept the swan's red beak; on Shakspeare's shoulder he sat in the guise of Odin's raven, and whispered in the poet's ear "Immortality!
"It's only a sparrow," they said; they did not, however, let her go, but took her home with them, and every time she cried they hit her on the beak.
"See, children, that is the way of the world," said the mother duck, whetting her beak, for she would have liked the eel's head herself.
The crow put his beak into the bottle.
" The stork put his beak into the bowl, but he was not able to eat it.
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.
The lark rose up carolling from the field, twittering her morning lay over the coffin, and presently perched upon it, picking with her beak at the straw covering, as though she would tear it up.
He has scratched on it with his beak the whole of his history during the hundred years he has lived.
The bird kissed it with its beak, sang to it, and then rose again up to the blue sky.
" Then he flew down into the grass, turned his head about in every direction, and tapped his beak on the bending blades of grass, which, in proportion to his size, seemed to him as long as the palm-leaves in northern Africa.
It was a perfect bird, with a beak and feathers, and could not have been dead long, and was lying just where the mole had made his passage.
