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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Minnie's Pet Parrot + +Author: Madeline Leslie + +Release Date: September 14, 2008 [EBook #26617] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MINNIE'S PET PARROT *** + + + + +Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="tn"> +<p class="titlepage"><b>Transcriber’s Note</b></p> + +<p class="noindent">Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A <a href="#trans_note">list</a> of corrections +is found at the end of the text.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 341px;"> +<a href="images/illus-001f-full.png"><img src="images/illus-001f.png" width="341" height="447" alt="Three people looking at a parrot perched on the back of a chair" title="“Oh, dear! oh, dear me!” Page 85." /></a> +<span class="caption">“Oh, dear! oh, dear me!” <a href="#Page_85">Page 85</a>.</span> +</div> + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 353px;"> +<img src="images/illus-001.png" width="353" height="500" alt="A seated girl, holding a cat, surrounded by a pony, monkey, lamb, two dogs, and a parrot" title="MINNIE and her PETS BY MRS. MADELINE LESLIE MINNIE’S PET PARROT." /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> + + +<h1 class="chapterhead">MINNIE’S PET PARROT.</h1> + +<p class="titlepage" style="margin-top: 3em;">BY<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-top: 1.5em;">MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,</span><br /> +<span style="font-size: smaller;">AUTHOR OF “THE LESLIE STORIES,” “TIM, THE SCISSORS-GRINDER,”<br /> +ETC.</span></p> + +<p class="titlepage" style="margin-top: 3em;">ILLUSTRATED.</p> + +<p class="titlepage" style="margin-top: 3em;">BOSTON:<br /> +LEE AND SHEPARD,<br /> +1864.</p> + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p> + +<p class="titlepage" style="margin-top: 3em;">Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by<br /> +A. R. BAKER,<br /> +In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of +Massachusetts.</p> + +<p class="titlepage" style="margin-top: 3em;">ELECTROTYPED AT THE<br /> +BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.</p> + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="titlepage"><span style="line-height: 2.5em;">TO MY YOUNG FRIEND,<br /> + +HENRY FOWLE DURANT, JR.<br /> + +<b>These Little Volumes</b><br /> + +ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED<br /> + +BY THE AUTHOR,</span><br /> + +IN THE EARNEST HOPE THAT THEY MAY INCREASE IN HIM THAT<br /> +LOVE OF NATURE AND OF RURAL LIFE WHICH HAS EVER<br /> +EXERTED SO SALUTARY AN INFLUENCE IN THE<br /> +FORMATION OF THE CHARACTERS OF<br /> +THE WISE AND GOOD.</p> + + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p> + + +<h2 class="chapterhead">MINNIE AND HER PETS.</h2> + +<hr class="decshort" /> + +<table border="0" style="margin-top: 2em; " summary="0"> +<tr> + <td>Minnie’s Pet Parrot.<br /> + Minnie’s Pet Cat.<br /> + Minnie’s Pet Dog.<br /> + Minnie’s Pet Horse.<br /> + Minnie’s Pet Lamb.<br /> + Minnie’s Pet Monkey.</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> + + +<h2 class="chapterhead"><a name="INTRODUCTION" id="INTRODUCTION"></a>INTRODUCTION.</h2> + + +<p>The object of these little books is not so much to give full, scientific +information with regard to the animals of which they treat, as to bring +before the child such facts concerning them as shall interest him in +their history, awaken a desire to know more of the particular traits of +each, and especially lead him to be kind to them as a part of God’s +creation.</p> + +<p>Natural history we deem, according to the opinion of an eminent writer, +as “not only the most captivating of the sciences, but the most +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span>humanizing. It is impossible to study the character and habits of the +lower animals without imbibing an interest in their wants and feelings.”</p> + +<p>Dr. Chalmers, who was famous for his interest in the brute creation, +says, “To obtain the regards of man’s heart in behalf of the lower +animals, we should strive to draw his mind toward them. The poor brutes +look, tremble, and give the signs of suffering, as we do. A threatened +blow strikes them with terror, and they have the same distortions of +agony on the infliction of it. Their blood circulates as ours does. They +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span>sicken, and grow feeble with age, and finally die, as we do. They +possess also instincts which expose them to suffering in another +quarter. The lioness, robbed of her whelps, makes the wilderness ring +with her cries; and the little bird, whose tender household has been +stolen, fills and saddens all the grove with her pathetic melody.”</p> + +<p>The author has been careful to select only facts well authenticated. She +takes this opportunity to acknowledge most gratefully her indebtedness +to those friends who have contributed original anecdotes which have come +under their own observation; and also to state that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> she has quoted from +most of the popular English works on these subjects, prominent among +which are Jesse, Richardson, and Hamilton, on dogs; Youatt, the Ettrick +Shepherd, and Randall, on sheep; Morris, Brown’s Natural History, +Chambers’s Miscellany, etc.</p> + +<p>She has been greatly encouraged, in the preparation of these volumes for +the young, by the flattering reception of the previous productions of +her pen. If these should meet with similar favor, they may be followed +by other volumes of the same character and objects.</p> + +<p class="right smcap">The Author.</p> + + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> + + +<h2 class="chapterhead"><a name="MINNIES_PET_PARROT" id="MINNIES_PET_PARROT"></a>MINNIE’S PET PARROT.</h2> + + + +<hr class="decshort" /> + +<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin-top: 2em;"><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I.<br /> + +<span class="chaptitle">MINNIE AND HER PARROT.</span></h2> + + +<p>In these little books, I am going to tell you about Minnie, her home, +and her pets; and I hope it will teach every boy and every girl who +reads them to be kind to animals, as Minnie was. Minnie Lee had a +pleasant home.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> She was an only child, and as her parents loved to +please her, they procured every thing which they thought would make her +happy. The first pet Minnie had was a beautiful tortoise-shell kitten, +which she took in her baby arms and hugged tightly to her bosom. After a +time, her father, seeing how much comfort she took with kitty, bought +her a spaniel. He already had a large Newfoundland dog; but Mrs.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> Lee +was unwilling to have him come into the house, saying that in summer he +drew the flies, and in winter he dirtied her hearth rugs. So Leo, as the +great dog was called, was condemned to the barn, while Tiney could rove +through the parlors and chambers whenever he pleased.</p> + +<p>In Minnie’s seventh year, her father bought her a Shetland pony and a +lamb, which he told her was called a South Down<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span>—a rare and valuable +breed. The little girl now thought her hands quite full; but only the +next Christmas, when her uncle came home from sea, he told her he had +brought an addition to her pets; and true enough, when his luggage came +from town, there was a bag containing a real, live monkey, named Jacko.</p> + +<p>These, with the silver-gray parrot, which had been in the family for +years, gave Minnie<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> employment from morning till night.</p> + +<p>You will wonder, perhaps, that one child should have so many pets; and, +indeed, the parrot belonged to her mother; but when I tell you that, +though her parents had had six children, she was the only one remaining +to them, and that in her infancy she was very sickly, you will not +wonder so much. The doctor said that their only hope of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> bringing her up +was to keep her in the open air as much as possible.</p> + +<p>“Let her have a run with Leo,” he used to say; or, “Get her a horse, and +teach her to ride. That will do her more good than medicine.”</p> + +<p>When her father came home from town, if he did not see his little +daughter on the lawn, playing with Fidelle, the cat, and Tiney, the dog, +he was almost<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> sure to find her in the shed where Jacko’s cage was kept, +with Miss Poll perching on her shoulder.</p> + +<p>When visitors called and asked to see her, her mother would laugh, as +she answered, “I’m sure I don’t know where the child is, she has so many +pets.”</p> + +<p>Minnie was not allowed to study much in books; indeed, she scarcely knew +how to read at all; yet she was not an igno<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span>rant child, for her father +and mother took great pains to teach her. She knew the names of all the +different trees on her father’s place, and of all the flowers in her +mother’s garden; but her favorite study was the natural history of +beasts and birds; and nothing gave her so much pleasure as to have her +father relate anecdotes of their intelligence and sagacity.</p> + +<p>He had a large, well-selected<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> library, where were many rare volumes on +her favorite subject, illustrated with pictures of different animals. +When Mr. Lee could not recall a story as often as she wished, she would +take his hand and coax him to the library. Then she would run up the +steps to her favorite shelf, and taking down a book almost as large as +she could lift, say, playfully, “Now, father, I’m ready for you to +read.”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span>Mrs. Lee often found them sitting together, talking over the wonderful +feats of some dog, cat, horse, or monkey, and laughed as she said to her +husband, “I believe Minnie comes naturally by her love for animals, for +you seem as much interested in the stories as she does.”</p> + +<p>Mr. Lee lived in a very handsome house about seven miles from the city +where he did business. He had made a great<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> deal of money by sending +ships to foreign lands, freighted with goods, which he sold there in +exchange for others which were needed at home. He now lived quite at his +ease, with plenty of servants to do his bidding, and horses and +carriages to carry him wherever he wished to go.</p> + +<p style="margin-top: 2em;">But in this volume I shall speak of himself, his family, equipage, and +estate, only as they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> are connected with my object, which is to tell you +about Minnie’s pet parrot, and also to relate stories of other parrots, +all of which are strictly true.</p> + +<p>Poll was brought from the coast of Africa by a sea captain, who +presented her to a lady, aunt to Mrs. Lee. At the lady’s death it was +given to her niece, and had been an important member of the family ever +since. It was not known how old she was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> when she was brought to +America; but she had been in the family for fifteen years, and therefore +was old enough to know how to behave herself properly on all occasions.</p> + +<p>Miss Poll had a plumage of silver-gray feathers, with a brilliant +scarlet tail. Her eyes were a bright yellow, with black pupils, and +around them a circle of small white feathers. Her beak was large and +strong, hooked at<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> the end. Her tongue was thick and black. Her claws +were also black, and she could use them as freely as Minnie used her +hands. When her mistress offered her a cup of tea,—a drink of which she +was very fond,—she took it in her claws, and drank it as gracefully as +any lady.</p> + +<p>In the morning, when her cage was cleaned, she always had a cup of +canary seed; but at other times she ate potato, cracker,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> bread, apple, +and sometimes a piece of raw meat. She liked, too, to pick a chicken +bone, and would nibble away upon it, laughing and talking to herself in +great glee.</p> + +<p>Miss Poll, I am sorry to say, was very proud and fond of flattery. If +Mrs. Lee went to the cage, and put out her finger for the bird to light +upon it, and did not praise her, she would often bite it. But if she +said, “Sweet<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> Poll! dear Poll! she is a darling!” she would arch her +beautiful neck, and look as proud as any proud miss. Then she would tip +her head, and put her claws in her mouth, just like a bashful little +girl.</p> + +<p>Poll was exceedingly fond of music, and learned a tune by hearing it +played a few times; but she had a queer habit of leaving off in the +middle of a line, when she would whistle for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> the dog, or call out, +“Leo, come here! lie down, you rascal!”</p> + +<p>Poll was very fond of Minnie, and indeed of all children.</p> + +<p>When she saw the little girl come into the room with her bonnet on, she +exclaimed, in a natural tone, “Going out, hey?” When Minnie laughed, she +would laugh too, and keep repeating, “Going out? Good by.”</p> + +<p>Parrots are said to be very jealous birds, and are displeased<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> to have +any attention shown to other pets.</p> + +<p>I think Poll was so, and that she was angry when she saw Minnie show so +much kindness to Fidelle. One day she thought she would punish the +kitty; so she called, “Kitty, kitty,” in the most sweet, coaxing tones. +Puss seemed delighted, and walked innocently up to the cage, which +happened to be set in a chair.</p> + +<p>“Kitty, kitty,” repeated Poll,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> until she had the little creature within +reach of her claws, when she suddenly caught her, and bit her ears and +her tail, Fidelle crying piteously at this unexpected ill treatment, +until some one came to rescue her. Then puss crept softly away to the +farther end of the room, and hid under a chair, where she began to lick +her wounded tail, while Poll laughed and chuckled over the joke.</p> + + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span></p> + + +<h2 class="chapterhead"><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II.<br /> + +<span class="chaptitle">THE PARROT AND THE TRAVELLER.</span></h2> + + +<p>One morning when the whole family were in the breakfast room, Poll began +to talk to herself, imitating exactly the manner of a lady who had +recently visited the house with her children.</p> + +<p>“Little darling beauty, so she is; she shall have on her pretty new +bonnet, and go ridy, ridy with mamma; so she shall.”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span>In the midst of this, the bird stopped and began to cry like an +impatient child.</p> + +<p>“Don’t cry, sweet,” she went on, changing her voice again; “there, +there, pet, don’t cry; hush up, hush up.”</p> + +<p>This conversation she carried on in the most approved baby style, until, +becoming excited by the laughter of the company, she stopped, and began +to laugh too.</p> + +<p>After this, whenever she want<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span>ed to be very cunning, she would repeat +this performance, much to the amusement of all who heard her.</p> + +<p>Poll was a very mischievous bird, and on this account was not let out of +her cage, unless Minnie or some one was at liberty to watch her.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Lee, who usually sat in the back parlor, from which place she could +hear Poll talk, was sure to know if the bird was doing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span> any great +mischief, for she always began to scold herself on such occasions.</p> + +<p>“Ah, ah!” she exclaimed, one day; “what are you about, Poll?”</p> + +<p>Mrs. Lee rose quickly, and advanced on tiptoe to the door, where she saw +the parrot picking at some buttons on the sofa, which she had often been +forbidden to touch. Much amused at the sight, she listened to an<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> +imitation of her own voice, as follows:—</p> + +<p>“Go away, I tell you, Poll! I see you! Take care!”</p> + +<p>Finding her buttons fast disappearing, she suddenly entered, when the +bird went quickly back to her perch.</p> + +<p>In the afternoon, when her husband returned from town, she related the +incident to him and to Minnie.</p> + +<p>“That shows us,” answered<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span> the gentleman, laughing, “how careful we +ought to be what we say before her; we shall be sure to hear it again.”</p> + +<p>After tea, when Minnie and her father were in the library, they heard +Poll singing a variety of tunes in her merriest tones. They stopped +talking a while to listen, and then both laughed heartily to see how +quickly she struck into a whistle, as Tiney walked deliberately into +the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span> room in search of her little mistress.</p> + +<p>“What a funny bird she is!” cried Minnie; “she runs on so from one thing +to another.”</p> + +<p>“In that respect she shows a want of judgment,” replied her father; +“but, by the way, I have a story for you of a curious parrot, which I +will read.</p> + +<p>“A gentleman who had been visiting a friend near the sea shore, and +concluded to return<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> by way of a ferry boat, walked to the beach to see +whether there was one ready to start. As he stood looking over the +water, much disappointed that there was none in sight, he was surprised +to hear the loud cry of the boatman,—</p> + +<p>“‘Over, master? Going over?’</p> + +<p>“‘Yes, I wish to go,’ he answered, looking eagerly about.</p> + +<p>“‘Over, master? Going over?’ was asked again in a more ear<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span>nest tone; +and again he repeated,—</p> + +<p>“‘Yes, I wish to go as soon as possible.’</p> + +<p>“The questions were repeated constantly, and yet no preparation was made +for granting his request. He began to be somewhat indignant, and seeing +no one near upon whom he could vent his wrath, he walked rapidly toward +a public house near by. Here his anger was speed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span>ily changed to mirth, +for on going near the door he saw a parrot hanging in a cage over the +porch, from whom all the noise had proceeded.”</p> + +<p>“Oh, father,” exclaimed Minnie, greatly delighted, “that was a real good +story. Isn’t there another one?”</p> + +<p>“Yes; here is one where a man made his bird revenge his insults.</p> + +<p>“There was once a distiller<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span> who had long suffered in his business by a +neighbor, who had several times reported him to the public authorities +as one who made and sold rum without a license to do so. At last he +became very angry at being interfered with, and, as no ready means +offered to revenge himself, he adopted the following singular method.</p> + +<p>“He had a large green parrot, which could speak almost any<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span> thing. This +parrot he taught to repeat, in a clear, loud, and distinct voice, the +ninth commandment,—‘Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy +neighbor.’</p> + +<p>“Having committed this lesson satisfactorily, the owner of the parrot +hung him outside one of the front windows of the house, where his +troublesome neighbor, who lived directly opposite, would be able to +have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> the full benefit of the inspired words.</p> + +<p>“The first time the neighbor came in sight, the parrot began, ‘Thou +shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor;’ and this was +repeated on every occasion, to the great delight of the neighborhood.”</p> + +<p>At this moment, Mrs. Lee opened the door, to tell Minnie that Anne, the +nurse, was waiting to put her to bed.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span>“It’s too early,” began the child, impatiently; “I don’t want to go +yet.”</p> + +<p>Her mother only answered by pointing to the little French timepiece on +the mantel.</p> + +<p>“I was having such a good time,” sobbed Minnie; “I always have to go +just when I’m enjoying myself the most.”</p> + +<p>Hearing this, Poll instantly began to whine, “I don’t want to go,” and +then, putting her claw<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span> up to her mouth, sobbed, for all the world, just +like her little mistress.</p> + +<p>Minnie wanted to laugh, but she felt ashamed, and did not like to have +her parents see her; so she said, “Keep still, Poll; you’ve nothing to +do with it.”</p> + +<p>This reproof only excited the bird the more, and in a loud, angry tone, +she went on,—</p> + +<p>“Keep, still, Poll! don’t meddle! don’t meddle! Ah, Poll,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span> what are you +about? Take care; I see you!”</p> + +<p>Mr. Lee watched his daughter anxiously, to see whether she would recover +her temper, and was pleased to observe that she presently advanced to +the cage, when she held out her finger to say “Good night” to her pet, +as usual.</p> + +<p>“Good night; say your prayers,” repeated the bird, holding out her +claw.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span>She then gave her parents their good-night kiss, and snatching Tiney in +her arms, went gayly from the room.</p> + + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span></p> + + +<h2 class="chapterhead"><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III.<br /> + +<span class="chaptitle">POLL’S FUNNY TRICKS.</span></h2> + + +<p>In summer, Poll lived mostly out of doors, hung in a cage at the top of +the piazza. Here she seemed very much amused at the various operations +she witnessed.</p> + +<p>In the morning, she was placed in front of the house on account of the +shade; but after dinner, the cage was carried round to a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> porch, where +the shed and barn were in full view.</p> + +<p>From the front porch, she could salute all the early visitors, and watch +the butcher’s cart as it passed, often startling him with the inquiry,—</p> + +<p>“What have you to-day?” Then, if no one answered, she would quickly +reply, “Veal,” or, “Only veal to-day.”</p> + +<p>But her greatest amusement was to watch a family of chil<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span>dren, who lived +nearly opposite. There was one child just commencing to go to school—a +duty which he disliked exceedingly.</p> + +<p>As soon as Poll saw him she would begin, “You must go, or you’ll grow up +a dunce.”</p> + +<p>Then she would whine, and cry, “I won’t go, I say I won’t.”</p> + +<p>“Go right along, you naughty boy, or I shall tell your father.”</p> + +<p>Poll now begins to sob and sniffle in earnest, when she sud<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span>denly stops +and begins the whole conversation over again, greatly to the merriment +of her hearers.</p> + +<p>There is, however, one trick that Poll has learned, which is quite +inconvenient.</p> + +<p>Near Mr. Lee’s house, the ground rises, his residence being on a hill. +Teams loaded with coal, and other heavy articles, continually pass by, +it being of course quite an object with the drivers to get the horses to +the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> top of the hill without stopping on the way.</p> + +<p>But this would spoil Miss Poll’s fun. When they are about half way up, +and just in the steepest part, she calls out, “Whoa,” in a loud, +authoritative voice, so exactly in imitation of the driver that they +obey at once. This she repeats as often as he attempts to start them +forward, until, greatly vexed, I am sorry to say, he sometimes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span> swears +at both the horses and the bird.</p> + +<p>Nor is this all. When the teams have reached the top of the hill, and +the driver wishes to let them stop and breathe, Poll begins to cluck for +them to go on, and will not let them rest until they are out of her +sight, when she begins a hearty laugh over her own joke. In the mean +time, the driver frets and fumes, and wishes that bird had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span> the driving +of those horses for once.</p> + +<p>Poll has formed quite an acquaintance with most of the children of the +neighborhood. At one time, there was a great excitement among the boys +in regard to a company of soldiers they were forming. On Wednesday and +Saturday afternoons, they marched up and down the street, past Mr. +Lee’s, beating a drum, and singing, “Rub-a-dub,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span> dub! rub-a-dub, dub! +Hurrah, hurrah!” As soon as they were out of hearing, Poll began the +story, and went through the drill with great glee.</p> + +<p>From the back porch, Poll witnessed the grooming of the horses, when, as +was often the case, they were taken out for Mrs. Lee and Minnie to ride. +Indeed, she did her best, as far as words could go, to assist in the +operation. While the har<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span>ness was being put on, she continually called +out, “Back, sir! Stand still! What are you about there?” This was often +done, greatly to the discomfiture of the hostler, who was obliged +generally to countermand these orders.</p> + +<p>I have told you that Poll was very fond of her friends, and jealous of +their affection. She was also very strong in her dislikes. There was one +member of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span> the family whom she could not endure, and she took every +occasion to vent her spite against him. This was the colored boy who +blacked the boots, scoured the knives, and ran errands.</p> + +<p>Early one morning, when Poll was hanging up at a back window, she saw +Tom polishing the boots, and whistling a merry tune, never once thinking +of his enemy near him. Squeezing herself, as she often did, through<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span> the +wires of her cage, she crept silently along through an inner room into +the shed, when she flew directly at him, caught him by the legs, and +held him fast.</p> + +<p>Poor Tom was frightened nearly out of his senses, and yelled for some +one to take the parrot away. The servants enjoyed the fun too well, +however, to release him. They laughed heartily, telling him to shake her +off; but he was paralyzed with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span> fright, and stood the picture of horror +until the cook coaxed Poll away.</p> + +<p>At another time, she took a great dislike to the groom, who was an +Irishman. Watching a favorable opportunity, she flew at him, caught hold +of his shirt bosom, and held it so tightly with her strong beak, that it +was some time before Mrs. Lee, who was attracted to the kitchen by the +noise, could make her let go<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span> her hold of the astonished object of her +hatred.</p> + +<p>After this, whenever the women servants were displeased with the man, +they would slyly let Poll out of her cage, when she darted directly +toward him, and was thus the means of his losing many a dinner.</p> + +<p>When his grievances became too heavy, he complained to his mistress, who +soon put a stop to such unjust proceedings.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span>One evening, when Mr. Lee drove into the yard, he heard Minnie laughing +heartily. Approaching nearer, he saw her sitting on the piazza; Leo, +looking rather ashamed, crouching at her feet; and Poll talking, in +great excitement, in exact imitation of his own tones—</p> + +<p>“Leo, come here! good fellow! Down, sir! Leo, Leo! Hurrah, boys; what +fun!”</p> + +<p>As it was near the time for his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> master’s return, the dog had been more +readily deceived by the parrot’s call, and had run rapidly toward the +house, when he perceived that he had been made a fool of, as he often +had been before.</p> + +<p>A few hours later, they were talking it over in the library, when Mr. +Lee said he thought he had read an incident very similar.</p> + +<p>Minnie joyfully clapped her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span> hands, while her father took down the book, +and read,—</p> + +<p>“A parrot belonging to a gentleman in Boston was once sunning himself in +his cage, at the door of a shop. Seeing a dog in the distance, he began +to whistle, when the animal, imagining it to be the call of his master, +ran swiftly toward the house.</p> + +<p>“At this moment, the bird exclaimed, ‘Get out, you brute!<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span>’ when the +astonished dog hastily retreated, leaving the parrot laughing and +enjoying the joke.”</p> + +<p>“That reminds me,” added Mrs. Lee, “of a story a lady once told me of a +parrot she owned, and which was really a wonderfully intelligent bird. A +new family moved into the neighborhood, consisting, among others, of two +young ladies, who always dressed very gayly.</p> + +<p>“Polly had a bad habit of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span> making remarks upon the passers by, as she +hung in her cage overlooking the main street. If, as was sometimes the +case, persons engaged in conversation stopped near the house, they would +often be startled by the cry,—</p> + +<p>“‘Go home, now! Want to quarrel?’</p> + +<p>“But when she saw ladies dressed fashionably, she gave utterance to a +most contemptuous laugh, which would have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span> been insult enough by itself; +but she often accompanied it by the words,—</p> + +<p>“‘La, how smart I do feel!’</p> + +<p>“My friend called at once on her new neighbors, but unfortunately found +they were out; she waited a long time for the call to be returned, and +at last began to wonder that no notice was taken of her politeness, when +the cause of the neglect was explained by a mutual friend.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span>“It appeared that on several occasions the young ladies had passed the +house, and had heard the insulting laugh and words, which they +attributed to my friend; so that when asked whether they had become +acquainted with Mrs. G., they answered, coolly, ‘We have no wish to make +her acquaintance.’</p> + +<p>“Being pressed for a reason, they at last confessed that they had been +repeatedly insulted,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span> and narrated in what manner it had happened.</p> + +<p>“This answer caused such a burst of merriment that they were surprised, +until, being told that it was the chattering of a tame parrot, they soon +joined in the laugh, and went at once to make her acquaintance, and also +that of her mistress.”</p> + + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span></p> + + +<h2 class="chapterhead"><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV.<br /> + +<span class="chaptitle">POLL AT THE PARTY.</span></h2> + + +<p>“Please, mamma, tell me all you can remember about Mrs. G.’s parrot,” +cried Minnie, a few days later. “Was she as wonderful as our Poll? and +was she as handsome?”</p> + +<p>Mrs. Lee smiled. “If I should answer all your questions,” she said +presently, “I should have work for the rest of the day.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span> My friend’s +parrot was green, with a brilliant red neck and tail. She was a great +talker, and seemed to understand the meaning of much of what was said in +her presence. I can recollect now two or three incidents which are well +worth repeating.</p> + +<p>“Polly was very fond of children, and enjoyed being let out of her cage +to play with them as much as our Poll does. One day, when Mrs. G. had +com<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span>pany, they were all startled by hearing loud and repeated screams of +distress. Recognizing the voice of her favorite bird, my friend ran +hastily into the yard, expecting to see Polly in some dreadful trouble. +To her surprise, there was the bird perched safely on the clothes line; +but going a few steps farther, she saw her youngest child, a darling +girl between two and three years old, just balancing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span> over the edge of a +hogshead of water, and entirely unable to recover herself, or to utter +one sound. Situated as she was, the poor child could not have remained +long in that position, and, but for the alarm given by the watchful +bird, must have fallen into the water and drowned.”</p> + +<p>“O, wasn’t that a good bird, mamma? I’m sure they all must have loved +her better than ever. Will you please tell the rest?”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span>“Mr. G. was for a long time ill, and was unable to rest well at night. +Polly, who always remained in their chamber at night, was in the habit +of rising early, and practising all her accomplishments by herself as +soon as she could see. She would begin, ‘Mr. G.,’ and then go on, ‘My +dear,’ the name he always called his wife, ‘Francis, Maria,’ until she +had repeated the name of every member of the family; after<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span> which she +chattered away a strange mixture of sense and nonsense until called to +breakfast. After the gentleman was so ill, his best hours for rest were +soon after dawn, and my friend would whisper, ‘Still, Polly! keep +still!’</p> + +<p>“This caution the parrot tried to enforce on herself by softly repeating +the words away down her throat—‘Keep still; Polly! keep still!’ and +ever after until<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span> Mr. G.’s death, whenever she saw her mistress point to +the bed, and put her finger on her lip, she began to whisper, ‘Keep +still, Polly! Keep still!’</p> + +<p>“At Mr. G.’s funeral, the clergyman, who was an Episcopalian, read with +great solemnity the funeral service.</p> + +<p>“The strangeness of the scene, the great concourse of people, and the +sound of weeping, so interested Polly that she did not<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span> utter a word; +but no sooner had the family returned from the grave than she began to +utter sounds in sentences so nearly like what she had heard at the +funeral, that it was recognized at once as the service for the dead.</p> + +<p>“I forgot to tell you that, having been in the habit of hearing the +children when they repeated the Lord’s prayer, she had long ago learned +it, and never went to sleep on her perch without utter<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span>ing the words +with apparent solemnity.</p> + +<p>“After the funeral, whenever a number of persons were assembled and +began to talk in a mournful tone, Polly always seemed to think this a +proper occasion to repeat her funeral service, often occupying an hour +in the recital. There were no distinct words; but the sentences were so +similar in length, and the tone so exactly that of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span> the clergyman, that +many persons recognized it without being told who the parrot wished to +imitate.”</p> + +<p>“I think Polly is the very best parrot I ever knew,” exclaimed Minnie. +“I wish Mrs. G. would bring her here. I wonder what Poll would say to +her.”</p> + +<p>“Mrs. G.’s bird is dead, my dear; and a sad death it was too. I will +tell you about it. After her husband’s decease, my friend had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span> a little +Blenheim spaniel presented her—a beautiful creature, with long white +hair like satin, and salmon ears. She was naturally fond of pets, and +soon became greatly attached to the dog, who returned her affection with +all his heart. As soon as she entered the room, he ran joyfully to meet +her, licking her hands, and showing his pleasure in every possible way.</p> + +<p>“For some days she noticed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span> that the bird seemed dull, and talked very +little; yet she did not connect it with the fact of her attention to the +dog. But at last as Polly refused to eat, and seemed uneasy when the +spaniel was present, she was convinced that the bird was jealous. Every +means was tried to reconcile the old friend to the new one, but in vain. +Polly knew that children must of course be loved and cared for. She +herself loved the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span> children of her mistress; but she could not endure +that any other favorite should divide the affection she had so long +enjoyed. From this time she drooped; and upon consulting a physician, he +said she had every symptom of consumption. Her feet swelled, and at last +she died on my friend’s breast, seeming ‘happy in being allowed to die +in the arms of one she so dearly loved.’”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span>A few weeks later, Mrs. Lee invited a small party of friends to take tea +at her house. They were all seated in the parlor, and Poll, who was out +of her cage, perched on the back of a chair in the next room, and +listened with the greatest curiosity to the hum of so many voices.</p> + +<p>Presently one of the ladies related a precious bit of scandal then +running through the town. She had scarcely finished her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span> narration, when +a shrill exclamation,—</p> + +<p>“Possible!” in a tone of incredulity, came through the open doors.</p> + +<p>The relator blushed deeply, but went on to prove that her statement must +be true, while Mrs. Lee was so much amused, she was obliged to make a +great effort to keep from laughing.</p> + +<p>Again, as soon as the lady ceased, the exclamation,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span>—</p> + +<p>“Possible!” was repeated, as if in greater doubt.</p> + +<p>This was too much of an insult, and the lady’s face kindled with anger.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Lee quietly arose, saying, “Poll must come in and make her own +apology for her rudeness;” and soon returned with the parrot clinging to +her finger.</p> + +<p>“Poll has a bad habit of interrupting conversation,” she said, +playfully, “especially when she<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span> wishes to be invited to join the +company, as at present.”</p> + +<p>“Could that sound come from a bird?” inquired the lady; “I certainly +thought it was a human voice.”</p> + +<p>Many of the company tried to make Poll talk, but she declined for the +present. After a while, however, when some witty remark was made which +caused a general laugh, Poll laughed too, both loud and long, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span> then, +as if perfectly exhausted with so much emotion, exclaimed,—</p> + +<p>“Oh, dear! Oh, dear me!”</p> + +<p>Two or three of the company had been invited to bring their children, +and just at this time Minnie returned with her young friends, having +introduced them to Jacko and her other pets.</p> + +<p>The little girls gathered eagerly around Mrs. Lee, begging her to make +Poll talk to them.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span>“Perhaps you would like to play a game of hide-and-seek with her,” cried +Minnie; “she plays that real nice.”</p> + +<p>“Yes, oh, yes indeed!” was the united response.</p> + +<p>“Come, Poll,” called Minnie, extending her finger.</p> + +<p>The parrot went at first with seeming reluctance, but presently entered +into the spirit of the play, running after the children around the +tables and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span> chairs, laughing as merrily as any of them, and every once +in a while repeating that curious “Oh, dear! Oh, dear me!” as if quite +worn out.</p> + +<p>Minnie then called the little girls into the next room, shutting the +door behind them, when Poll, putting her head down close to the crack, +seemed trying to listen to what they said. She well understood the game, +however, for she presently called,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span> “Whoop,” and then hid behind the +door, to catch them when they came along, crying out, as she did so, +“Ah, you little rogue!”</p> + +<p>After this, she laughed so heartily that none could help joining +her,—certainly the ladies could not; but all agreed she knew altogether +too much for a bird, and was the most wonderful parrot they had ever +seen.</p> + + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span></p> + + +<h2 class="chapterhead"><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V.<br /> + +<span class="chaptitle">POLL AND THE BACON.</span></h2> + + +<p>Minnie went one day with her parents to a neighboring town, to visit +some friends. She had no sooner alighted from the carriage, than she +heard the familiar sound of a parrot’s voice.</p> + +<p>“How do you do, miss?” cried the bird, arching its superb neck.</p> + +<p>“I am very well, thank you,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span>” answered Minnie, laughing. “How are you?”</p> + +<p>“I’m sick, very sick.” The funny creature hung her head, and assumed a +plaintive, whining tone. “Got a bad cough. Oh, dear!” (Coughing +violently.) “I’m sick, very sick. Call the doctor.”</p> + +<p>“I’m glad you have a parrot,” the little girl said to her companion, who +stood by laughing. “I have one too; I should ad<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span>mire to hear them talk +to each other.”</p> + +<p>“Yes, I should; but mother thinks one such noisy bird is more than she +can endure. Father had Poll given to him when he was a little boy, and +he says he couldn’t keep house without her. She is very old indeed, and +is often sick, though now she is only making believe. Father will tell +you how many years she has been in the family.”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span>“There is nothing I like so well,” exclaimed Minnie, enthusiastically, +“as to hear stories about birds and beasts.”</p> + +<p>“Oh, I’ll get father, then, to tell you a funny one about Polly when he +was a little boy. He knows all about parrots, because he once went to +the country where they live.”</p> + +<p>At dinner, Minnie was introduced to the gentleman, whom she regarded +with great interest,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span> on account of his fondness for the bird. No sooner +was the dessert brought on the table, and the servants had retired from +the room, than Lizzie Monson, her young friend, began.</p> + +<p>“Papa, will you please to tell Minnie about Poll finding out who stole +the bacon?”</p> + +<p>Mr. Lee burst into a merry laugh, but presently said,—</p> + +<p>“I warn you it is a dangerous business. Our little daughter<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span> has such a +passion for birds and beasts, that if she once finds out you are a +story-teller, she won’t let you off very easily.”</p> + +<p>Mr. Monson gazed a moment into the sparkling countenance of the child, +upon which her father’s remarks had caused the roses to deepen, and +said, smilingly, “She does not look very savage. Any contribution I can +make,” turning to the child, “to your stock of knowledge on your<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span> +favorite subject will give me great pleasure.”</p> + +<p>His bow was so profound and his smile so arch that the little girl could +not help laughing as she thanked him, while Lizzie whispered, “Isn’t +papa a funny man?”</p> + +<p>“Ask your friend to come into the library,” called out Mr. Monson, as +they were leaving the dining hall.</p> + +<p>“Father, isn’t Poll sixty years<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span> old?” cried Lizzie, pressing forward to +attract his attention.</p> + +<p>“She has been in the family ninety years,” answered the gentleman, “and +was then probably one or two years of age. It is astonishing how much +she knows. Lizzie, run and open her cage, and bring her here.”</p> + +<p>“She is, indeed, a splendid bird,” remarked Mrs. Lee, gazing with +delight at her richly-tinted plumage. “See, Minnie, how her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span> neck is +shaded from the most beautiful green to the richest mazarine blue.”</p> + +<p>“And look at her breast, mother; see those elegant red feathers!”</p> + +<p>“The parrot,” said Mr. Monson, “is an insulated bird. Its manners and +general structure, and the mode of using its feet, as described by +naturalists, are different from any other bird. Mr. Vigors, Mr. +Swainson, and others,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span> consider parrots the only group among birds which +is completely <i>sui generis</i>. A parrot will, by means of its beak, and +aided by its thick, fleshy tongue, clear the inside of a fresh pea from +the outer skin, rejecting the latter, and performing the whole process +with the greatest ease.</p> + +<p>“In climbing, I presume you have noticed, she uses her hooked beak as +well as her feet; and in feeding she rests on one foot,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span> holding the +food to her beak with the other. Her plumage is generally richly-tinted, +while in some varieties, like this, it is superb. In all kinds the skin +throws off a mealy powder, which saturates the feathers and makes them +greasy.”</p> + +<p>“Please, papa,” cried Lizzie, “to tell about these birds as you saw them +in their own country.”</p> + +<p>“I suppose, Minnie,” continued the gentleman, “that you know<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span> this is +not the home of your favorite bird. You never see them at liberty and +flying from tree to tree, as you do the robin or bluebird.”</p> + +<p>“Yes, sir, I know that. Uncle Frank was going to bring me another parrot +from South America, but mother thought one was enough.”</p> + +<p>“I quite agree with you,” said Mrs. Monson, enthusiastically, “I can +scarcely be reconciled to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span> noise of one, rousing me at all sorts of +unreasonable hours, and keeping up such a clatter through the whole +day.”</p> + +<p>“They are confined to the warmer climates,” the gentleman went on, “and +are most abundant in the tropics. I have seen a flock of them resting in +a grove of trees, chattering and talking like a company of politicians +at a caucus. They are indeed very noisy, keeping together in large<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span> +flocks, and feeding upon fruits, buds, and seeds. At night they crowd +together as closely as possible, and hiding their heads under their +wings, sleep soundly. As soon as the first ray of light can be +discerned, they are all awake, chatting over the business for the day. +First they make their toilet, and in this they assist each other, being +very fond of pluming each other’s feathers.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span>“One peculiarity of this bird is, that he has but one wife, and never +marries again. The pairs form lasting attachments, and when one dies the +mate sometimes mourns itself to death. They make a kind of nest in the +hollow trees, and there bring up their young. They belong to the +scansorial order of birds; that is, they have two toes forward and two +backward. Some of them fly slowly; but others wing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span> their way with the +greatest rapidity, and for a long period.”</p> + +<p>“I think,” remarked Mrs. Lee, “they are the most intelligent of the +feathered race.”</p> + +<p>“Yes, naturalists decidedly give them that character. Poll sometimes +seems almost too human; and then they are so quick to learn. Did you +know, Minnie, that a parrot is considered an article of delicacy for the +table?”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span>“O, no, indeed, sir! I wouldn’t eat a parrot for any thing.”</p> + +<p>“Nor I; but among other rare and luxurious articles on the bill of fare, +described by Ælian, as entering into the feasts of the Emperor +Heliogabalus, are the combs of fowls, the tongues of peacocks and +nightingales, the heads of parrots and thrushes; and it is reported that +with the bodies of the two latter he fed his beasts of prey.”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span>Minnie’s countenance expressed great distress, as she quickly exclaimed, +“O, how cruel!”</p> + +<p>“Now, papa,” said Lizzie, “please tell her about Poll and the bacon.”</p> + +<p>“Yes, I mustn’t forget that. When I was a little boy, Minnie, my father +kept a country store, where all manner of things were exposed for sale. +On one counter, in the genteel part, were cambrics, calicoes, and even +silks<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span> for ladies’ dresses, while at the other end were barrels of +sugar, boxes of cheese, and other groceries, and above them hung large +legs of bacon.</p> + +<p>“Midway between these, a hook was driven into the beam, and there Poll +used to hang as long ago as I can remember any thing.</p> + +<p>“It was the custom for the men of the village to gather together at the +store, and talk pol<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span>itics, or gossip about the affairs of the place. +Long before town meeting, it was well understood at the store how each +man in the community would vote, and who would be elected to the +different offices.</p> + +<p>“Among others who used to come there, was a man by the name of Brush. He +was considered an inoffensive, well meaning man, with no force of +character; but all supposed him<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span> honest. Poll, however, knew to the +contrary; and after a while she convinced others that Brush was a thief.</p> + +<p>“It was noticed, when this man got excited by the conversation, that he +always left the circle round the stove, and walked back and forth +through the store; and it was at such times that he contrived to cut +large slices from the bacon, which he carefully concealed in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span> his +pocket. My father soon began to conclude that the meat, and sundry other +articles, were missing, but could not imagine who was the thief. He +watched for several days, not noticing that whenever Mr. Brush made his +appearance, Poll instantly screamed, ‘Bacon.’</p> + +<p>“One evening he determined to watch, as, the day previous, a larger +slice than usual had been taken, and he was hid behind a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span> barrel, when +he saw Mr. Brush coming softly toward him.</p> + +<p>“‘Bacon! bacon! bacon!’ screamed Poll, at the top of her voice.</p> + +<p>“‘I’d wring your neck if I dared,’ murmured the man, glancing +maliciously toward the bird; and then he walked back again to the fire.</p> + +<p>“After this, father watched the parrot, and found he made this cry only +when Brush ap<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span>peared. He thought it so singular that he charged him with +the theft, which the man, in great confusion reluctantly confessed.</p> + +<p>“The curious story of his detection by a parrot soon spread through the +town, and for years Mr. Brush was called by the name of Bacon, while the +bird received much attention and many compliments for her sagacity.”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[113]</a></span>“I suppose, then, Poll saw him take it,” said Minnie, gravely.</p> + +<p>“O, yes! He witnessed the whole proceeding, and did his best to give +warning at once; but his loud cries were not understood.”</p> + +<p>“Wasn’t he a good bird?” asked Lizzie.</p> + +<p>“Yes, indeed. I suppose it would be a good plan to hang a parrot in +every store.”</p> + + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a></span></p> + + +<h2 class="chapterhead"><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI.<br /> + +<span class="chaptitle">PARROT SAVING THE SILVER.</span></h2> + + +<p>Minnie was quite distressed one morning, when, on going to Poll’s cage +to say “Good morning” to her pet, she found her unable to answer, only +returning a feeble moan. She ran in haste to tell her mother, who +thought it one of the parrot’s tricks. When she came down, however, she +found Poll was really ill.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 341px;"> +<a href="images/illus-115f-full.png"><img src="images/illus-115f.png" width="341" height="452" alt="A seated girl with a parrot on her hand" title="“Dear Poll! darling birdie!” Page 115." /></a> +<span class="caption">“Dear Poll! darling birdie!” Page 115.</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span>“Dear Poll! darling birdie!” she said, tenderly, stroking the beautiful +head. “I’ll make you some tea, which I hope will soon cure you.”</p> + +<p>She went at once to a side closet, and taking a little pinch of saffron +from a paper, sent it to the cook, with directions to steep it at once.</p> + +<p>Breakfast that morning was a dull affair, without Poll’s lively talk; +and as, after the saffron<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span> tea, she did not at once revive, Minnie began +to mourn so much lest her dear parrot would die, that her father, to +occupy her attention, took her to the library, and read her some +anecdotes, a few of which I will repeat.</p> + +<p>“A tradesman in London kept two parrots, which usually hung in a cage +over the porch projecting from the front door, so that when a person +stood on the side of the street nearest the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a></span> house, the birds could not +be seen.</p> + +<p>“One day, when the family were all absent, some one rapped at the door, +when one of the parrots instantly called out,—</p> + +<p>“‘Who’s there?’</p> + +<p>“‘The man with the leather,’ was the reply.</p> + +<p>“‘Oh, ho!’ retorted the parrot.</p> + +<p>“The door not being opened as he expected, the stranger knocked again.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span>“‘Who’s there?’ repeated the bird.</p> + +<p>“‘Why don’t you come down?’ cried the man, impatiently. ‘I can’t wait +all day.’</p> + +<p>“‘Oh, ho!’ was the only response.</p> + +<p>“The man now became furious, and leaving the knocker, began to pull +violently at the door bell, when the other parrot, who had not before +spoken, exclaimed, ‘Go to the gate.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span>’</p> + +<p>“‘What gate?’ he asked, seeing no such convenience.</p> + +<p>“‘Newgate,’ was the answer, just as the man, greatly enraged at the +thought of being sent to Newgate prison, ran back into the street, and +found out whom he was questioning.”</p> + +<p>“Dr. Thornton, a benevolent physician in London, once visited the +menagerie in Haymarket, where he saw a parrot confined by a chain +fastened to his leg.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span> He talked with the bird, and found he could +imitate the barking of dogs, the cackling of fowls, and many sounds like +the human voice. The bird, however, seemed melancholy and restless, +which induced the good doctor to try and buy him of the owner. He +succeeded at last in getting him for the sum of seventy-five dollars, +which Dr. Thornton did not regret, since it would rescue the poor +creature<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span> from her present unhappy confinement.</p> + +<p>“The first thing he did was to loose him from the chain, and carry him +home, where his diet was changed from scalded bread to toast and butter +for breakfast, and potatoes, dumplings, and fruit for dinner.</p> + +<p>“At first, his poor feet were so cramped, and the muscles so much +weakened from long disuse, that he could not walk. He<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span> tottered at every +step, and in a few minutes appeared greatly fatigued. But his liberated +feet soon acquired uncommon agility, his plumage grew more resplendent, +and he appeared perfectly happy. He no longer uttered harsh screams, but +very readily learned many words, and amused himself for hours repeating +them. He attached himself particularly to his kind benefactor, and +always cheerfully practised his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span> little accomplishments to please him, +calling out, ‘What o’clock? Pretty fellow! Saucy fellow! Turn him out, +Poll.’</p> + +<p>“He was friendly to the children of the family, and to strangers, but +exceedingly jealous of infants, from seeing them caressed.</p> + +<p>“He was remarkably fond of music, and danced to all lively tunes, moving +his wings, and also his head, backward and forward,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span> to keep time. If +any person sang or played a wrong measure, he stopped instantly. When +his quick scent announced the time of meals, he ran up and down the +pole, uttering a pleasing note of request.</p> + +<p>“When any food was given him of which he was not very fond, he took it +in his left claw, ate a little, and threw the rest down; but if the +variety was nice and abundant, after eating what he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span> wished, he +carefully conveyed the remainder to his tin pail, saving it for another +occasion.</p> + +<p>“Every Friday a scissors grinder came and worked under his window. After +listening attentively, Poll tried to imitate the sound with his throat, +but could not succeed. He then struck his beak against the perch; but +his quick ear discerned a difference. Finally he succeeded by drawing +his claw in a particular way<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></span> across the tin perch, and repeated the +performance of grinding every Friday, much to the amusement of those who +saw him.”</p> + +<p>Minnie was so much interested in these stories that she quite forgot her +grief, until her mother opened the library door to tell her that her pet +was beginning to sing.</p> + +<p>Minnie flew to see her, and before noon had the pleasure of knowing that +Poll was quite re<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span>covered. Indeed, she had never seemed more gay. She +hopped first on one foot and then on the other, in curious imitation of +a polka dance, tossing her head on one side in a most coquettish manner.</p> + +<p>Then she talked and laughed with Minnie, exclaiming every now and then +in a cunning tone, “What are you about, you rogue? O, you little rogue!”</p> + +<p>The little girl was delighted.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span> She held Poll on her lap, caressing her +fondly, and calling her by all sorts of endearing and funny names.</p> + +<p>The parrot on her part seemed desirous of showing her gratitude for +relief from pain by doing all she could to please her little friend. She +often heard the cook calling Tom, who was apt to run to the barn when +she wanted him; and she began in a loud, impatient tone, “Tom!” her +voice<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[129]</a></span> rising; then again, “Tom!” falling inflection; “Tom!” again; “I +say, Tom; come here, you rascal!”</p> + +<p>Finding this made Minnie laugh heartily, she began to call, “Leo, come +here! Lie down, sir! Tiney, Tiney,” in a small, fine voice, like the +child’s; “Tiney, Tiney, Tiney! O, you little rogue!”</p> + +<p>After this she chattered away like Jacko, cocking her eyes and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a></span> looking +as if she thought herself very smart.</p> + +<p>Once in a while Poll talked Portuguese, which she had learned from some +sailors who were in the vessel when she came over, more than fifteen +years before. She began now to talk what sounded to Minnie like perfect +jargon, but which so much amused the bird that she kept stopping to +laugh most heartily.</p> + +<p>By and by Mrs. Lee was ready<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[131]</a></span> to sit down; and she said Poll had had +excitement enough for a sick bird, but told Minnie if she would bring +the book about birds, she would try and find some true stories to read +to her.</p> + +<p>The next hour was passed most pleasantly to both of them. Some of the +stories I will tell you.</p> + +<p>“A parrot belonging to a lady in England was fond of attending family +prayers; but for fear he might take it into his head to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[132]</a></span> join in the +responses, he was generally removed.</p> + +<p>“But one evening, finding the family were assembling for that purpose, +he crept under the sofa, and thought himself unnoticed. For some time he +maintained a decorous silence; but at length he found himself unable to +keep still, and instead of ‘Amen,’ burst out with, ‘Cheer, boys; cheer!’</p> + +<p>“The lady directed the butler<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[133]</a></span> to take him from the room; and the man +had taken him as far as the door, when the bird, perhaps thinking he had +done wrong, and had better apologize, called out,—</p> + +<p>“‘Sorry I spoke.’</p> + +<p>“The overpowering effect on those present can be better imagined than +described.”</p> + +<p>“Here is a story,” continued Mrs. Lee, “of a parrot who acted as a +police officer.”</p> + +<p>“In Camden, New Jersey, Mr.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[134]</a></span> John Hutchinson had a very loquacious +parrot, and also a well-stocked chest of silver plate. One day some +robbers thought they would like to use silver forks, goblets, and +spoons, as well as their rich neighbors, and watching their opportunity +broke into the pantry.</p> + +<p>“They had already picked the lock off the thick oaken chest, and were +diving down among salvers, pitchers, and smaller ar<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a></span>ticles, when they +were terrified to hear a loud, angry voice exclaim,—</p> + +<p>“‘You lazy rascals, I see you! John, bring me my revolver!’</p> + +<p>“Dropping the silver, which they had taken, on the floor, the robbers +made a rush for the window, which they had forced open, and in their +hurry got over the wrong fence into the yard of a neighbor who kept a +fierce dog.</p> + +<p>“Bruno, not at all pleased with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a></span> the appearance of his sudden visitors, +sprang upon them, barking at the top of his voice.</p> + +<p>“The noise called the police to the place, and one of the robbers was +secured.</p> + +<p>“The watchful parrot saved his owner’s silver. When he was praised for +his timely interference, he would arch his head, and begin at once to +call out,—</p> + +<p>“‘You lazy rascals, I see you! John, bring me my revolver!’”</p> + + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></span></p> + + +<h2 class="chapterhead"><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII.<br /> + +<span class="chaptitle">THE PARROT AND THE PRINCE.</span></h2> + + +<p>“When Prince Maurice was Governor of Brazil, he was informed of an old +parrot who would converse like a rational creature. His curiosity became +so much roused that, though at a great distance from his residence, he +directed that it should be sent for.</p> + +<p>“When Poll was first intro<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[138]</a></span>duced into the room where the Prince sat with +several Dutch gentlemen, he instantly exclaimed in the Brazilian +language,—</p> + +<p>“‘What a company of white men are here!’</p> + +<p>“Pointing to the prince, one gentleman asked, ‘Who is that man?’</p> + +<p>“‘Some gentleman or other,’ Poll instantly replied.</p> + +<p>“‘Where did you come from?’ asked the prince.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</a></span>“‘From Marignan.’</p> + +<p>“‘To whom do you belong?’</p> + +<p>“‘To a Portuguese.’</p> + +<p>“‘What do you do for a living?’</p> + +<p>“‘I look after chickens.’</p> + +<p>“The prince laughingly exclaimed, ‘You look after chickens!’</p> + +<p>“‘Yes, I do; and I know well enough how to do it,’ clucking at the same +time like a hen calling her brood.</p> + +<p>“Prince Maurice, as well as the rest of the gentlemen, were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[140]</a></span> delighted +with the intelligence of the bird, and after keeping him at his +residence as long as possible, the governor gave him a prize for being +the most sagacious parrot in the kingdom.”</p> + +<p>When Mr. Lee returned from the city, he found Poll as bright and +cheerful as a lark. He brought with him a young man in his employ, +called Theodore, to whom Minnie exhibited all her pets, and who staid +till after<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[141]</a></span> tea, and then Mr. Lee read a few stories to Minnie, with one +of which I must close my story of Minnie’s pet parrot.</p> + +<p>“A prince, named Leo Maced, was once accused by a monk of forming a plan +to murder his father, the emperor. He was, therefore, though protesting +his innocence, cast into prison.</p> + +<p>“After some months, the emperor had a feast, to which he invited most of +the nobles of his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[142]</a></span> court. They were all seated at table, when a tame +parrot belonging to the prince, and which was hung up in the room, cried +out, mournfully,—</p> + +<p>“‘Alas, alas! Poor Prince Leo!’</p> + +<p>“This exclamation, which was continually repeated, as if the bird could +not help comparing their sumptuous entertainment with the prison fare +and confinement of his exiled master, so<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[143]</a></span> affected the guests as to +deprive them of all appetite. It was in vain that the emperor urged his +delicacies upon them. They could not eat, while the faithful bird +repeated his plaintive cry,—</p> + +<p>“‘Alas, alas! Poor Prince Leo!’</p> + +<p>“At last one of the nobles with tears entreated the emperor to pardon +his son, whom they all believed to be innocent. The others joining in +the request, the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[144]</a></span> father ordered that Prince Leo be brought before him. +He was soon restored to favor, and then to his former dignities, through +the affection of his faithful parrot.”</p> + + + +<hr class="chapbreak" /> +<div class="tn"> +<p class="titlepage"><a name="trans_note" id="trans_note"></a><b>Transcriber’s Note</b></p> + +<p class="noindent">The following typographical errors were corrected.</p> + +<table style="margin-left: 0%;" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="typos"> +<tr> + <td>Page</td> + <td>Error</td> + <td>Correction</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td>4</td> + <td>LECTROTYPED</td> + <td>ELECTROTYPED</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td>98</td> + <td>and was then</td> + <td>“and was then</td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Minnie's Pet Parrot, by Madeline Leslie + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MINNIE'S PET PARROT *** + +***** This file should be named 26617-h.htm or 26617-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/6/1/26617/ + +Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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