She's taking Mother up to show her—the water-jug with storks on it, I expect it is.
Kid: Then where do baby storks come from?
" The young fir-tree wished very much to know; so in the spring, when the swallows and the storks came, it asked, "Do you know where those trees were taken?
(1858) THE storks relate to their little ones a great many stories, and they are all about moors and reed banks, and suited to their age and capacity.
How the cry resounded over field and meadow, and through the dark-brown woods, where the fresh green moss still gleamed on the trunks of the trees, and from the south came the two first storks flying through the air, and on the back of each sat a lovely little child, a boy and a girl.
Nature showed herself to him sometimes in the dark forests, at others in cheerful meadows where the storks were strutting about, or on the deck of a ship sailing across the foaming sea with the clear, blue sky above, or at night the glittering stars.
" The young fir-tree wished very much to know; so in the spring, when the swallows and the storks came, it asked, "Do you know where those trees were taken?
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.
Our neighbor told me the same thing, but she laughed when she said it, and so I asked her if she could say 'On my honor,' and she could not; and I know by that the story about the storks is not true, and that they only tell it to us children for fun.
Storks and pelicans flew after him in feathery bands, to accompany him to the boundaries of the garden.
