text: " The protection extended to the stork which builds without fear in the heart of their towns gives them an additional claim on his good-will; and "would but our country gentlemen put a stop to the indiscriminate slaughter of birds by their ruthless gamekeepers we should not have to visit Holland to see the true habits of the stork nor roam through Germany to enjoy the soaring of the kite--a bird once very common in this part of Yorkshire but now a total stranger to it