Meantime the Fairy had prepared a chariot, to which she harnessed two powerful eagles; then placing the cage, with the
parrot in it, she charged the bird to conduct it to the window of the Princess's dressing-room.
"Oh, we parrots can talk in two languages-- people's language and bird-language," said Polynesia proudly.
I know that parrots and elephants sometimes live to be very, very old."
They associated in her mind, the parrot becoming sanctified through the neighbourhood of the Holy Ghost, and the latter becoming more lifelike in her eyes, and more comprehensible.
Then she thought of the parrot. Her neighbours objected that it would not be proper.
"Come, let us be men!" said he, involuntarily imitating the chatter of the
Parrot, and at the same moment he was again a copying-clerk; but he was sitting in the middle of the table.
They were repeating the same words over and over again, those great clever men, very much like
parrots who also seem to know what they say.
The sisters rose at the same time, and they all stood near the cage of the
parrot, as he tore at a claw-full of biscuit and spat it out, seemed to mock them with a pompous dance of his body without moving his feet, and suddenly turned himself upside down and trailed himself all over the outside of his golden cage, with the aid of his cruel beak and black tongue.
Indeed, under the thick foliage of this wood, a world of
parrots were flying from branch to branch, only needing a careful education to speak the human language.
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Parrot Print Candle.
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Parrot Cushion.
Paleontologists said they have named what they believe to be the world's largest
parrot after Heracles.