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Updated: May 5, 2025
The caged green parrot that is regarded as a sort of guardian-spirit in most native households moved on its perch and fluttered a drowsy wing. 'There is the answer, said Holden. 'Mian Mittu has spoken. He shall be the parrot. When he is ready he will talk mightily and run about. Mian Mittu is the parrot in thy in the Mussulman tongue, is it not? 'Why put me so far off? said Ameera fretfully.
'Let it be like unto some English name but not wholly. For he is mine. 'Then call him Tota, for that is likest English. 'Ay, Tota, and that is still the parrot. Forgive me, my lord, for a minute ago, but in truth he is too little to wear all the weight of Mian Mittu for name. He shall be Tota our Tota to us. Hearest thou, O small one?
'And they were long breaths, for my heart stood still with delight, said Ameera. Then Tota took the beasts into his councils the well-bullocks, the little gray squirrels, the mongoose that lived in a hole near the well, and especially Mian Mittu, the parrot, whose tail he grievously pulled, and Mian Mittu screamed till Ameera and Holden arrived. 'O villain! Child of strength!
I give the parrot one half and Tota the other. Mian Mittu with careful beak took his share from between Ameera's lips, and she kissed the other half into the mouth of the child, who ate it slowly with wondering eyes. 'This I will do each day of seven, and without doubt he who is ours will be a bold speaker and wise.
This to thy brother on the house-top! Tobah, tobah! Fie! Fie! She drew from an embroidered bag a handful of almonds. 'See! we count seven. In the name of God! She placed Mian Mittu, very angry and rumpled, on the top of his cage, and seating herself between the babe and the bird she cracked and peeled an almond less white than her teeth. 'This is a true charm, my life, and do not laugh. See!
Holden realised his pain slowly, exactly as he had realised his happiness, and with the same imperious necessity for hiding all trace of it. In the beginning he only felt that there had been a loss, and that Ameera needed comforting, where she sat with her head on her knees shivering as Mian Mittu from the house-top called, Tota! Tota! Tota!
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