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Show The Storks in Council. Near Oggersheira, a small village on the banks of the Rhine, there is a large meadow where every autumn the storks are in the habit of meeting previous to their annual migration. On one of these occasions above fifty stork wereob-erved wereob-erved formed in a ring, in the center of which was one whoscjappearance showed the greatest alarm. One of the party seemed to address the assembly by clapping clap-ping its wings for about five minutes. It was followed by a second, a third and a fourth, who each clapped its wings in the same odd manner as the first. At last all the storks forming the ring commenced com-menced clapping their wings; and, when they bad done this, they with one accord fell upon the poor culprit in the middle and dispatched him in a few seconds; after which they rose up in a body, and one, according to custom, taking the lead, they winged their way toward the south. What offense the poor stork had committed that bad brought upon him eo sad a fate is of course unknown. New York Mail and Express.- |