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Anecdotes of the Parrot.

arrots are a noisy set of fellows,

the whole of them. I never took

a very great fancy to them. I

think it quite likely that, if I had
done so in early days, I should have been
quite cured of my fondness by this time.
Some years ago, there lived on the oppo-
site side of the street from the house
where I resided in the city, a young lady,
who seemed to have been remarkably
fond of pets. She always had more or
less of them. ‘There was no harm in
that, you allsay. No, that is true enough.
But the worst of it was, this lady always

contrived to have the noisiest kind of pets.
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Everything she petted, for some reason oF
other, made a hideous noise. I used to
think she used to teach these creatures t>
scream and yell, because she liked such
music. If so, she had a most unearthly
taste, I admit. But let the reason be
what it may, she always had some bird
or beast that shrieked, for mere pastime,
like a hyena. Sometimes it was a cal,
sometimes a parrot, sometimes a little
screamer of. a bird whose notes were pro-
vokingly like the music produced by the
filing of a saw.

But of all the favorites of this singular

lady, her parrot uttered thi most hideous
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