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"I am informed that my orders will come by to-morrow," added the lieutenant-commander. "The ship is all ready for sea. An eight-inch Parrot has been substituted for the Armstrong gun, the same as the midship gun of the Bellevite," the captain explained. "Perhaps you would like to know something about your fellow-officers, Christy."
Yet, after all, you think the old fellow must have had a capital time with a whole island to himself; and you think you would like such a time yourself, if only Nelly and Charlie could be there with you. But this thought does not come till afterward; for the time you are nothing but Crusoe; you are living in his cave with Poll the parrot, and are looking out for your goats and man Friday.
A. It is now necessary that I should say a few words. The Court. Say on. A. We painters take the same license that is permitted to poets and jesters. Q. That fellow dressed like a buffoon, with the parrot on his wrist, for what purpose is he introduced into the canvas? A. For ornament, as is usually done. Q. At the table of the Lord whom have you placed? A. The twelve Apostles. Q. What is St.
When they reached the banyan tree, where the Rajah had left the two parrots, the old parrot called out to him, "So you have come back at last! We thought you never would, you were such a long time away! There you went, leaving us here all the time, and after all doing no good, but only getting yourself killed. Why didn't you do as we advised you, and jump up nicely?"
Do not give way to timidity. There is a marital courage, as there is a civil and military courage, as there is the courage of the National Guard. What is the first course of a young girl after having purchased a parrot? Is it not to fasten it up in a pretty cage, from which it cannot get out without permission? You may learn your duty from this child.
So is the site of the hut where Robinson lived with the dog and the parrot and the cat, and where he endured those first agonies of solitude, which strange to say never involved any ghostly fancies; a circumstance so very remarkable, that perhaps he left out something in writing his record?
But in this volume I shall speak of himself, his family, equipage, and estate, only as they are connected with my object, which is to tell you about Minnie's pet parrot, and also to relate stories of other parrots, all of which are strictly true. Poll was brought from the coast of Africa by a sea captain, who presented her to a lady, aunt to Mrs. Lee.
In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. In this view of him, as Man thinking, the theory of his office is continued. Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures; him the past instructs; him the future invites."
Everett, to become his housekeeper, after the death of his wife; and, forsaking all her old associations, she had girded herself and her trunks, and, with her parrot as her sole companion, she had retired to the wilderness to subdue the dragons of anarchy and chaos which had probably entered into the Everett household.
A bright green parrot with a scarlet splash in its wings, balanced itself unsteadily on her shoulder, looking at Andrews out of angry eyes, hard as gems. "Il est jaloux, Coco," said Rosaline, with a shrill little giggle. Andrews took the bowl in his two hands and drank some of the scalding broth. "It's too hot," he said, leaning back against the girl's arm.
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