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Old Mel had his qualities. He was as much a "no-nonsense" fellow, in his way, as a magistrate, or a minister. 'Or a king, or a constable, Aunt Bel helped his illustration. 'Or a prince, a poll-parrot, a Perigord-pie, added Drummond, whose gravity did not prevent Mr. George from seeing that he was laughed at. 'Well, then, now, listen to this, said Mr.
"Can't do that. I shall have to square up with him and look to you for the lot, and most likely drop into the workhouse for my pains." "Oh, no. You can be quite certain of getting the money." "Well, blessed if I ain't a easy-going cove," said Mr Cripps, with a grin. "It ain't every one as 'ud wait three months on your poll-parrot scholarships, or whatever you call 'em. Come, business is business.
I doubt if you could find upon it so much as a goat or a poll-parrot much less an `onager, a buffalo, or a boa-constrictor, some of which at least are indispensable to a desert island of any respectability." "Why, then, do they call such delightful places desert islands!" repeated Johnny.
'What does it matter about Herr Schliefer? Jill would say, in a sort of fury. 'I like him a hundred times better than I do that mincing little poll-parrot of a Madame Blanchard: she is odious, and I hate her, and I hate Fräulein too. It is not the lessons I mind; one has to learn lessons all one's life; it is being shut up like a bird in a cage when one's wings are ready for flight.
For the love of Hivin, it's only a poll-parrot sittin' there ferninst us, barrin' the appetite of him. Saints aloive! but Oi 'd love to paste the crature av it was n't a mortal sin to bate a dumb baste. An' he 's a Lutheran! God be marciful an' keep me from iver ketchin' that same dis'ase, av it wud lave me loike this wan. What's that? What was it the haythen said then, seeñorita?"
Give 'em their civil rights, says he. 'What civil rights are they deprived of? says the other. 'Give 'em their civil rights, says he. That was all he could say. He was for all the world like a poll-parrot. He was one of these well-fed fellows, with about three inches of fat on his ribs and three inches of bone in his skull, and a power of sinse outside his head.
When silver is placed on an equality with all other commodities; when the people are permitted to freely employ it as they please, then will the natural law of supply and demand apply to the white metal, and New York editors cease to jabber financial nonsense with the stupid persistence of a poll-parrot praising its own personal pulchritude.
We won't shoot him, but only give him a start. Look at that: there's a poll-parrot two of 'em settled in the tree above him! It's a long shot, but I think I could bring one down; so here goes!" Tom levelled his piece and the next instant would have fired, when the parroquets began chattering, screaming, and fighting together, fluttering down towards the bushes which concealed our watcher.
The Bolsheviki of the present not only poll-parrot the balderdash of the French demagogues of 1789; they also mouth what was gospel to every bête blonde in the Teutonic forest of the fifth century. Truth shifts and changes like a cataract of diamonds; its aspect is never precisely the same at two successive instants.
By the way, wot do you call your wife? Missis?" "Yes," I ses, staring at him. "But wot's it got to do with you?" "Nothing," he ses. "Nothing. Only I'm going to try the poll-parrot voice and the sawdust walk on her, that's all. If I can deceive 'er that'll settle it." "Deceive her?" I ses. "Do you think I'm going to let you go round to my 'ouse and get me into trouble with the missis like that?
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