“Let us try a parrot, then; and while we eee make a sna that will
talk we can make one that will flap his wings.”

May laughed at the idea of making a parrot that could flap his.wings.

“Get my card-board and string, May,” said mamma, “and we will have a
parrot in just a jiffy. The first thing is to cut out the head, body, tail and
perch all in one piece, just as you see it here. We will have to have our parrot
ona perch, of course. Then let us cut out the wings, make the little holes,
just as we have done in the other toys, fasten them on the body by means of a
strong thread, and here we have the parrot ready to fly,” and mamma pulled
down the string and the parrot spread its wings.

“Now we must paint this nicely. Let us see, what color shall we give it?”
said mamma.

‘He must have green on his head and red on his body,” said May.

‘You may paint the parrot to suit yourself,” said mamma, ‘‘and let us see
how like a real parrot you can make it.”

The harlequin, bear and parrot furnished little M.y amusement for many
nights, but she was very much interested in making a larger number of toys,
and suggested to her mamma that they make a whole menagerie in that way.
Mamma was pleased to see the interest little May took in making toys, and so
‘readily consented to help her further. A few nights afterward, as they sat
around the fire, May said: ‘Mamma, let us make some more toys.”

“Very well,” said mamma, ‘let us make a sailor with a wooden leg, playing
on a violin.”

May laughed at the idea of asailor put wasready to begin. Material was
brought and mamma said: ‘Now first trace head and body in one piece, the
legs and arms and bow in another, as in figure A.”

“But the sailor cannot dance and fiddle, too,” said May, “can he, mamma?
He cannot fiddle and make both arms go.”

“We will easily fix that,” said mamma. ‘Fasten the legs to the body,
just as we have done before; fasten the one arm to the shoulder with a string
rivet, and then place the bow upon the fiddle; then on the back attach the legs
at the top with a string; then put a string in the hole at the upper part of the
arm, and your sailor is ready to fiddle and dance.”

“But, mamma, he can dance and he can fiddle, but he does not look like
a sailor,” said May

“Let us see 7{we can paint him so he will,’ said mamma. The paints
were brought and mamma soon changed the head so it looked like a sailor’s
head and face with a hat on it. The body was painted so as to bring out
the violin as we see it in figure B, and May added a one-legged sailor playing a
violin to her collection.