auto,
and brought out a parrot's cage. In it was a green bird, which, as soon as
it came out into the sunlight, began preening its feathers and moving
about, climbing up on the wires, partly by its claw feet and partly by its
strong beak.
"Polly wants a cracker! A sweet cracker!" squawked the parrot. "Lovely
day! How are you? Here, Rover, sic the cats!" and the parrot whistled as
well as Russ himself could have done.
"Oh, what a nice parrot!"
"Could we keep him?"
"Doesn't he talk plain?"
"Listen to that whistle!"
"Oh, isn't she nice!"
These were some of the things the six little Bunkers said as they listened
to Bill Hixon's parrot, as it moved about in the cage on the back seat of
Mr. Mead's auto.
"Couldn't we keep it, Mother?" asked Rose. "I'd like it almost as much as
my doll!"
"Oh, mercy no, child! We couldn't keep Mr. Hixon's parrot!" said Mrs.
Bunker.
"Have you one, Grandma Bell?" asked Russ.
"No, I'm thankful to say I haven't," said Mrs. Bell with a laugh. "I like
children, and I love to hear them talk and laugh; but I don't like
parrots. I have a dog and a cat; so I think we'll let Mr. Hixon have his
own parrot."
"I don't care for 'em myself," said Mr. Mead. "Well, I'll be getting along
with this one now. I guess I've got out all your baggage."
"Yes, and thank you very much," said Mr. Bunker.
"Come on! Gid-dap! Go 'long, horses!" cried the parrot. "Give me a
cracker! Go long, horses!"
"He thinks you're driving horses," said Russ.
"I don't know what he _thinks_," said Mr. Mead. "He talks a lot, that's
sure. I won't be lonesome for the rest of the way. I'll let the parrot
ride outside with me, I guess. He'll be sort of company for me."
"Pretty Poll! Give me a cracker! Let me out and give me a cracker!" cried
the green bird.
"Here's one!" said Laddie, holding out a bit of cracker which he had left
from a package his mother had bought for him on the train.
"Look out! He might bite you!" said Laddie's father.
"Bill said his bird was
Notka biograficzna
Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.