"Below in the street a whole crowd of children were playing; and when they caught sight of the Storks, on of the boldest of the boys, and afterwards all of them, sang the old verse about the Storks. But they only sang it just as he could remember it: ="

Stork, stork, fly away,
Stand not on one leg, I pray,
See your wife is in her nest,
With her little ones at rest.
They will hang one,
And fry another;
They will shoot a third,
And roast his brother.

From Folk-Lore and Fable AEsop - Grim - Andersen, The Harvard Classics, Eliot, Charles W. Editor, Collier and Son, New York, 1937, pp310-311.

This story was First Published in 1838 - there is an entertaining and informative collection of his life found at: http://hca.gilead.org.il

Hans Christian Anderson Organization

Sincerely,
Gargoyle