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Updated: June 23, 2025
But all I say is, you can't pick up draught hosses light or heavy off a greengrocer, nor yet off a bird-fancier; an' the man who says you can, I'll tell him to his face he's no better than a liar," concluded Farmer Pearce, suddenly growing crimson in the face, and smiting the table with unnecessary heat. "If the hosses be goin', why should the men linger?" young Obed urged.
What a fat brute that bird was! and green and dusky-crimson and yellow; but its head is white age, I suspect; and what a broken beak hideous bird! splendid plumage; something between a mackaw and a vulture." Sir Bale spoke jocularly, but with the interest of a bird-fancier; a taste which, when young, he had indulged; and for the moment forgot his cares and the object of his unwonted excursion.
Here a naturalist trembled with anxiety for the fate of a coral; there a bird-fancier worked himself into a small frenzy at the jostling of big parrots. Bones, fossils, plants, bottled fish, bananas, oranges, and mangoes, were mingled in one promiscuous heap.
He had the greatest difficulty in getting so many together, but a bird-fancier in Transylvania had undertaken to send them to him. The beautiful young woman, as she turned on her pillows, was surprised to hear how delightfully the birds were singing in her garden that night.
The man, who was evidently an eccentric, ran his eye roguishly over the faces behind the boy and named his price; a high one a very high one but one nicely calculated to lie on the right side of public reprobation. Dicky laid his guinea on the sill. "I want a whistle, too," he said, "and my change, please." The bird-fancier slapped his breeches pockets. "A guinea?
During the winter months, neither white nor black cockatoos are to be seen; nor have I ever heard to what place they migrate. The bird-fancier might here make as beautiful a collection as I have ever seen. The different varieties of the parrot tribe are countless, and extremely pretty: the king-parrot, the lowrie, and the mountain parrot, are, perhaps, the most beautiful.
He took the coin, and walked away resolutely with a set white face. He saw none of the people who made way for him. The bird-fancier stared after the small figure as it walked away into darkness. "Bastard?" he said. "There's Blood in that youngster, though he don't face ye again an' I lose my deal. Blood's blood, however ye come by it; you may take that on the word of a breeder.
"What is it that he carries in his hand?" "A birdcage, I expect." "A birdcage?" "Yes!" He caught the gleam of her eyes as she looked up at him out of the shadow. "Is he, then, a bird-fancier?" "No, no, I can't explain because I don't understand myself. But Ah Fu goes to a place in Shadwell regularly and buys young birds, always very young ones and very little ones." "For what or for whom?"
Part of the third storey was occupied by a bird-fancier; and between him and the Fursts above waged perpetual war, one of those petty, unending wars that can only arise and be kept up when, as here, such heterogeneous elements are forced to live side by side, under one roof.
Relieved from the lout's presence, Cheri gradually laid aside his tantrums, smoothed down his ruffled plumes, and resumed the manners of a gentleman. My attempt at happy families was nipped in the bud, decidedly. By and by I went to the market-town, and, having sold my butter and eggs, hunted up a bird-fancier.
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