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Martin, with a twinkle in his eye. Then there began an argument about where the parrot's cage should be hung. Cathy said it should be in her room because the parrot's color would go so well with her bedspread and curtains. Jerry said that naturally the cage should be in his room. He had known the parrot longest, hadn't he? "He likes me best. I know he does," declared Andy.

"Oh, hush, hush!" Muriel cried, unable to catch the parrot's precious words through the emulous echo of the Frenchman's music. "Whereof one Thomas Wells, gent., under God, was master go on, Polly." "Perruque blonde Et collet noir," the Frenchman repeated, with a half-offended voice, finishing his stanza.

Lost to all sense of honor or table-manners the benign-faced Giraffe with his benign face still towering blandly in the air, burst through his own neck with a most curious anatomical effect, locked his teeth in the Parrot's gay throat and rolled with him under the table in mortal combat! Round and round the room spun the Yellow Canary and the Black Plush Bag!

I'll have time to pack my kit to-morrow, before the West-bound pulls out." Upon their departing ears, grown wearily familiar to its monotonous repetition, fell the parrot's customary adieu, as that disreputable-looking bird swung rhythmically to and fro on its perch. "Goo' bye!" it gabbled, "A soldier's farewell' to yeh! goo' bye! goo' bye!"

Come into the library." There was the round table, the little green sofa, the piano, the parrot's cage, and the yellow-painted presses; and it seemed only a little while since she had been summoned to this room, since she had stood facing her mistress, her confession on her lips. It seemed like yesterday, and yet seventeen years and more had gone by.

With his eye upon her sideways, showing its circle wide as a parrot's, he asked her one of those questions that lovers sometimes permit between themselves. "Has another ?" It is here as it was uttered. Eye-speech finished the sentence. Rapidly a train of thought was started in Emilia, and she came to this conclusion, aloud: "Then I love nobody!"

It would look so absurd after all the years that he had kept the parrot and made much of it suddenly to try and find it a new home. "Has my brother arrived?" he asked of the stable-boy, who had come with the pony-carriage to meet him. "Yessir, came down by the two-fifteen. Your parrot's dead." The boy made the latter announcement with the relish which his class finds in proclaiming a catastrophe.

"The parrot's a little better now, sir," said one of the men, taking advantage of his hesitation, "he's opened one eye." "Well, I only want to be just," repeated the skipper. "I won't do anything in a hurry, but, mark my words, if the parrot dies that cat goes overboard."

"I believe it's them black parrots has told them," said old Tom, pointing to a bird common in the islands something like a small crow with a parrot's beak. "They're very knowing birds." I saw that Tom was serious. So I tried to draw him out. "What language do they speak, Tom?" I asked. "Them, sar? They speak Egyptian," he answered, with perfect solemnity. "Egyptian!" "Yes, sar," said Tom.

"What's the last news from Fairyland, Babie?" asked the father as the little one ran up to him. "I want to be Queen Mab, papa, but Armine wants to be Perseus with the Gorgon's head, and Jock is the dragon; but the dragon will come before we've put Polly upon the rock." "What! is Polly Andromeda ?" as a grey parrot's stand was being transferred from the balcony. "Yes, papa," called out Armine.