Word: uckermark
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...Viteze-in-Uckermark, Germany, a stork flying south from the autumn cold fell into a field. His wing was broken. All night he lay in a frosty furrow and when day came heard voices near at hand. Terrified out of his wits, what was his astonishment to find that some children were addressing him in soft imploring accents. They had stumbled upon him on their way to school. Now, when they go to school he struts behind them; while they construe their lessons he "stands motionless on one leg in the corner"; in the afternoon he "marches home before them...
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