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Serve him right! I'm glad of it. What business had he to be married to the Princess? To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his nature on such subjects, in a most extraordinary voice between laughing and crying; and to see his heightened and excited face; would have been a surprise to his business friends in the City, indeed. 'There's the Parrot! cried Scrooge.
On a chill September morning, by the cheek of a brisk fire, and the rain drumming on the window, I began "The Sea Cook," for that was the original title. It is not to be wondered at, for stolen waters are proverbially sweet. I am now upon a painful chapter. No doubt the parrot once belonged to Robinson Crusoe. No doubt the skeleton is conveyed from Poe.
They decided at once that the dining-room also was charming, with its cheery open fire of snapping pine knots, for the air outside was chilly. Then, too, there was a parrot on a pole, who greeted them with, "Well, well, well, what's all this? Did you ever?" Miss Dorothy Stevens had the kind of face that children take to at once.
"Can you remember that?" she asked, sharply, in her natural tone. "Yes, ma'am." "Say it over." Poor little Elmira Edwards said it over like a parrot, imitating her mother's fine, stilted tone perfectly. In truth, it was a formula of presentation which she had often used. "Don't you forget the 'compliments, an' 'I thought she hadn't had any parsnip stew this season." "No, ma'am."
Both this bird and the little parrot regularly fly off with flocks of their wild fellows, but always come back afterward to the house. This was a most interesting example of an intermediate stage between true wildness and domestication. There was little doing throughout the day.
Have not Cowper's now historic hares displayed an educated and unnatural confidence; and many a gray parrot, though limited in speech, said many a witty thing?
Seems to me if I'd been off skyhootin' round in foreign lands say, how about them French women? Pretty bold lot, I guess, if you can believe all you " The parrot in its cage at the end of the porch climbed to a perch with beak and claw. "Flapdoodle, Flapdoodle, Flapdoodle!" it screeched. The judge glared murderously at it. "Wilbur Cowan, you bad, bad, bad child not to let us know!" Mrs.
"Have ye a parrot, ma'am? Have ye never a parrot to keep ye free and give ye laughter every hour? Buy my parrot, lady. Just from the Gold Coast. He'll talk ye Spanish, Flemish or good city tongue. Buy my parrot at ten crowns, and so cheap, lady!" So spoke the ear-ringed sailor, who might never have seen a salter water than the Thames.
But I suppose they took him for a parrot or a hawk, or something that bantams hate for while his cage was drying they picked out his feathers, and PICKED and PICKED out his feathers, till he was perfectly bald. 'Hugo, look, said I. 'This is the end of Parsival. Let me have no more surprises. He burst into tears." Thus did Mrs. Lewin create an atmosphere.
Then he pulled himself together, assumed, with a self-conscious effort, his most determined, most aggressive, manner, and added: "I couldn't stand that. I had come to the end of my tether; so I sprang up, ordered a cab to be called, seized the cage and drove with it to a bird shop in Shaftesbury Avenue. There I sold the parrot for a trifle.
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