STORY OF A STORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 288, 5 December 1929, Page 10

STORY OF A STORK.

How a stork carried a message from Northern Germany to the Sudan is described by a correspondent in the ■Field. At an isolated homestead in a northern province in Germany three or four children made a great pet of a female stork, one of a pair which nested on the roof of the house. When the autumn came and the stork showed signs of getting ready to fly to the south, the young folk tied a ribbon to the bird's neck to which was attached a tiny note. In this note the German children stated that the stork was a great pet of the writers, and they especially begged the people in whose country the stork might spend the winter to be kind to it I and send it back in the spring. On a fine warm day of early spring the stork returned to 'its German home. Great was the children's delight and | surprise when they saw that the bird had | a piece of ribbon, different in colour from that they had used, tied round its neck. To this ribbon was also attached a note j addressed to "the children who wrote the letter the stork brought." _ The letter proved to be from a missionary in an outlying region of the Sudan.