But his manner had more of King Log and less of King Stork.

She also won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for picture books, recognizing King Stork (Little, Brown, 1973), text by Howard Pyle (1853-1911).

Howard Pyle, King Stork, 1973.

Tories aching for fizz have to accept the meat and two veg reality; and they may remember that, in the fable, Jupiter grew so tired of the frogs complaining about their uninspiring King Log that he sent down a replacement, King Stork, who ate them all.

King Log and King Stork THE People being dissatisfied with a Democratic Legislature, which stole no more than they had, elected a Republican one, which not only stole all they had but exacted a promissory note for the balance due, secured by a mortgage upon their hope of death.

As to the sort of Mayor she would make, there is an old story-Aesop told it-about King Log and King Stork.

The majority of allusions to Aesop's fable contrast the quietism of King Log with the energetic policy of King Stork.

The fable is pressed into the service of political commentary in the title "King Stork and King Log: at the dawn of a new reign", a study of Russia written in 1895 by the political assassin Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, using the pen-name S. Stepniak.

"Does anything remind you of King Log and King Stork?"

We're fed up with King Stork; King Log would be welcome relief.