FRIDAY’S ASTONISHMENT. 265

 

 

 

  

“MADE HIM UNDERSTAND I WOULD
SHOOT AND KILL TUAT BIRD.”

as could not wear off for a long
time; and I believe, if 1 would
have let him, he would have worshipped me and my gun! As for
. the gun itself, he would not so much as touch it for several days
after; but would speak to it, and talk to it as if it had answered
him, when he was by himself; which, as I afterwards learned of
him, was to desire-it not to kill him.

Well, after his astonishment was a little over at this, I pointed
to him to run and fetch the bird [ had shot; which he did, but
stayed some time; for the parrot, not being quite dead, was fluttered
a gond way off from the place where she fell; however, he found
her, took her up, and brought her to me; and, as I had perceived his