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"If you ask me," I ses, "it sounds like a poll-parrot with a cold in the 'ead." "And now for your walk," he ses, looking as pleased as if I'd said something else. "Come to the door and see me go up the wharf." I didn't like to hurt 'is feelings, but I thought I should ha' bust.
"Go home to your mother. I wonder lightnin' don't strike a fool like me. Go home and play in the sand. What business have you got cavortin' around with grown men? I reckon I was locoed to be makin' a he poll-parrot out of myself for a kid like you. Go home and don't let me see you no more. Why I done it, will somebody tell me? Go home, and let me try and forget it."
Give my love to the sexton, and tell him never to chase a dog in religious service. Better let it alone, though it should, like my friend's poll-parrot, during prayer time, break out with the song, "I would not live alway!" But the fidgety sexton is ever on the chase; his boots are apt to be noisy and say as he goes up the aisle, "Creakety-crack! Here I come. Creakety-crack!"
"Fetch Kumbo in, George." The little man went out, and came back agin shoving in a fat, stumpy Zulu woman wot began to grin and chatter like a poll-parrot the moment she saw Rupert. "It's all right," ses Mr. Alfredi; "she's took a fancy to you." "Is is she an actress?" ses Rupert. "One o' the best," ses the manager. "She'll teach you to dance and shy assegais.
"You've got the parrot in there!" "Well now," said Aunt Emma. "This is really serious. If you think I am such a cruel old woman as to shut up a poor poll-parrot in a bag, there's no help for it, we must open the bag. But it's a very curious bag I wouldn't stand too near it if I were you." Click! went the fastening of the bag, and out jumped what do you think?
'Not often, says I; 'they take a cab; mine if it's on the stand. 'Very good, he says; 'good-morning, my friend. So I come away, and drives back again to the stand." "And you left the lady there?" I asked, with no doubt in my mind that it was Mrs. Foster. "Yes, doctor," he answered, "talking away like a poll-parrot with the black-haired gent.
The profane poll-parrot is not a more startling witness to the character of its surroundings than the "terrible infant," whose rude snatchings, pert contradictions, and glib slang phrases are sure to be most effectively "shown off" in the presence of visitors. It is of little use to affect grieved surprise, or stern reprobation, when one's children are merely exhibiting their daily discipline.
"I will do for 'im some dark night; see if I don't," he said over his shoulder. Jimmy went on quickly: "You're like a poll-parrot, like a screechin' poll-parrot." Donkin stopped and cocked his head attentively on one side. His big ears stood out, transparent and veined, resembling the thin wings of a bat. "Yuss?" he said, with his back towards Jimmy. "Yes!
Her mind has been given no better means of development than the knowledge of her beauty, the general and superficial homage that it always receives, the little round of thought that centres about self, and the daily question of dress. That's narrowing the world down to a cage large enough only for a poll-parrot.
Archibald Slinkey, a red-faced, elderly man, with a nose like the beak of a poll-parrot 'to propose the health of my excellent and highly esteemed friend, Frank Sydney.
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