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Updated: May 21, 2025
"That means, 'Is the porridge hot yet? in bird-language." "My! You don't say so!" said the Doctor. "You never talked that way to me before." "What would have been the good?" said Polynesia, dusting some cracker-crumbs off her left wing. "You wouldn't have understood me if I had."
Now listen, Doctor, and I'll tell you something. Did you know that animals can talk?" "I knew that parrots can talk," said the Doctor. "Oh, we parrots can talk in two languages people's language and bird-language," said Polynesia proudly. "If I say, 'Polly wants a cracker, you understand me. But hear this: Ka-ka oi-ee, fee-fee?" "Good Gracious!" cried the Doctor. "What does that mean?"
They often fly home to see them, and sometimes perch on the walnut-tree, and talk with them. Their musical chirpings are pleasant to hear. We don't understand the bird-language; but we judge, by the soft tones, that it is something kind and agreeable they are saying. Perhaps they are talking about their plans for the future, when they all know how to use their wings, and can fly about together.
"'Good-morning! said Tufty, who was of a friendly and social disposition, and was beginning to feel the need of company. "'Morning! said the woodpecker, very crisp and shorthand not so much as looking up to see who had spoken to him. "If you had heard this talk you would have said Tufty called out: 'Peep! peep! and the woodpecker but that's because you don't understand bird-language.
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