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Show THE DESERET EAGLE. 66 dear? around :is tearful friends, rose higher You natural history book tells you, and higher, the little phc- - of paper does it not, that storks by their auuual bearing VKi loving mnssag i perfectly migrations avoid the sev re seasons In distinguishable in his upward (light. "G od by, Storky," cried the children waich the reptiles that form their food remain hid and torpid, won ler kissing their hands to the bird and ful provision of an Creator." soooiug out "Uome back with spriug; Both children grew pale at thoughts come back with spring." All throughout the stv re winter of losing their favorite, and the ready which followed, the littu- - llarmanns tears sprang to their eyes. "I know wnat I shall do when the would talk of ten of tueir loving playmate of the bygone suti.ner. But time comes for S orkv to leave said, nodding nt--r wise little when they saw tne garden hidden for eleven year old head. "I shall write days beneath a thick covering of snow, on a piece of pap r: ki.nl toSiorky and hea d the plaintive cries of birds belli fed bv their little during the wloser, im 4 end film back that w to think that their to us in the spring;1 and sign it with hands, they our names and aJdress, and tie round dear S'orky wa away from all .starvaone of his legs," ind sin laug ted and tion and cold, f r Jjying h m- - If amidst clipped her hand with childish glee sunshiue and ti iwei; but n how they her mother and Fri z sharing in her longed to have him back! and c uld he merriment, and wo ndering with her only speak that he might teli them of as to what would oe the result of the what he had seea and been doing during all the weary mout'is of absence. experiment. At lei gh the long gloomy winter One bitter coM day iu October Fritz and Kirlina came runuiug to their passed and gentle spring mide the f mother wi n consternation, earth glad wifi its presence. KirWould Storky c.nns to th former siouting, "0 lnimma, mamma, Storky's gone: he is not in lina ami Fritz asked eac other as they tne garden, and tue nest is deserted." g z ?d outof the windows waich com- "But wiat about ms food, THE STOKK Axl) ITS MESSAGE. Early la the summer months of 1870, while indu'glug in an aerial voyage, a young stork dropped into th git deu belonging to a house situated iu the immediate vicinity of Hamburg, at the back of which tood some o!d trees where for a succession of years other storks nad built fieir nests. Tae house wastnen occupied by a widow lady named Harmann and her two children Kirliua, in her eleven h year, and Fritz, two years younger. Wuile playiog iu the garden the children obseived and ran o wards the little thing, which they found seated in the midst o( a 11 wer bid. Lift ing it carefully for fear of injunug it, they ran t their mother and made au earnest request that she would allow them to rear it. Storks cau he tamed, you know, mamma de'," Kirlina "And you will And it so useful in the garden," Fritz pleaded warmly. Mrs Harmann, smiling, took little stranger on her lap and gi ntly stroked it. And you will he kind to it, and at tend to its warns if I give you permission' keep it?" 'Yes, yes," they cried. Then it is yours." And the d ted ciildren carried their new pet all-wi- d fac-so- 1 de-li- in triumph. Biing naturally fond of birds and animus tue little II inn inns had been cart fully taught to show kindness to any helpless creature which ehauc or accident might happen .to throw in their way, and it is hardly necessary to say that they faithfully kept their promise to be kind to their little cap tive.aud throughout the golden summer months he was their choen play fellow, enterlug iuto their sports at.d pastimes with an intelligent interest whici doubly endeared him to ttum. 'F tzand I never m'ian to part with Storky," Kirlina said to her mother one iovely August day while caressing the bird then lying by her side with his long straight beak resting ol her shoulder. "O, my dear, you will soon have to part with him," Mrs Harmann said in regretful tones, for she too loved the gentle bird that had shown itself so aff ictiouate and grateful for tae care tak m of it. He would on y die if you were to detain him. soon join his tribe, and fly away beyond tue seas to warmer climes can spend the winter where l h-- s months." "But we could keep him warm and comfortable in our school Kirlina said wistfully. room," a -- th-quai- lb-wil- s; us,"-Karlin- aid. iff my Here he fairly broke down, his sister Joining audibly in his gri f. "Well, well, my dear children," Mrs. liar m Du said, "I told ym storks must fly away like otner birds of passage, but only to come bark to us with the gladsome spring, Mweepi.u over desert and de p, tnroug:i tae wastes of trackless air.1 " fB'Jt has Storks quite left ns, mam-?" prsist-i- Fri z '1 fear so" m d manded a view of Hamburg, and saw the huge nest- - on "elfry, tower, and housetop once more occupied by tne birds, while the tree inhabited by Storky still remained untenanted . Would he ever come back? Storky, now a sp eudid full-grow- n bird. answered tni qutstion in pciton, and appeared one morning on the terrace wall, craning his neck in at the parlor window in the hope that bis never forgotten and still fondly lovid companions would see him and un out to welcome him; and oh what rJ dcing there was over the returned xile. Snouts of "Mamma! mamma!" brought Mrs. Hat mann on the scene, and when the bird cam forward to dowi into tne garden and greeted his greet her, Karlina obsejved for the del'ghted friends with lively dtmon-- s flrst time that it still'uad a pit ce of rations of iff crin. paper tied round i s g. On, F itz," she cried, with ttaiful Fully pe sua i d that this was his farewell visit, Kirlina an into the eyes; "no one ha cared for Stoiky, house and sp ?edily returned with her since he has brought back my miss-age- ." carefully writloi ra's.ag and fastened it by a piece of colored ribbon to one Amaz.id and hurt at this slight to her of his legs. feathered darling, she took the paper As the setting sun lit up the autum off and urn oiled it . No it was not her nal scene wirh a bright transient message, It was an ther written in gleam, a 11 ck if t rks passed tl wl German and read as follows: above them. "K Africa. These the young bird evidently "You stork has spent the wiuter with me. I read you message, have g ven recognized as his party, for, "With a loving farewtll glance he him kind care through the winter, and took wing, now send this in return. I am a missAnd after a few ionary livi g beie " circles" Our Dunn Animals "And gone withou. my message," Kirlina cried. But the attached and loving bird had not left his lovia companions, as they sadly thought. Towards the close of a fine bright day, about a wek after, he dropped 1 ever-wideni- ng |