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for lie coTild not speak tlie Brazilian language — 

 " From what place do you come ?" The parrot 

 replied, " From Marignan." " To whom do 

 you belong?" inquired the prince. "To a 

 Portuguese," was the answer. " What do you 

 do there ?" the prince asked again. " I take 

 care of chickens," said the parrot. The prince 

 laughed, and said, " You take care of chick- 

 ens !" " Yes, I do," the parrot answered, " and 

 I know well enough hoAV to do it." And im- 

 mediately he commenced clucking, in imitation 

 of the hen, when she wishes to call her chick- 

 ens together. 



There is an Eastern story of a person who 

 taught his parrot to repeat only the words, 

 "What doubt is there of that?" He carried 

 it to market for sale, fixing the price at one 

 hundred rupees ?" A Mogul asked the parrot, 

 "Are you worth a hundred rupees?" The 

 parrot answered, "What doubt is there of 

 that ?" The Mogul was delighted, and bought 

 the bird. He soon found out that this was all 

 that it could say. Ashamed of his bargain, he 

 said to himself, " I was a fool to buy this bird." 

 The parrot exclaimed, as usual, " What doubt 

 is there of that ?" 



A gentleman in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 

 had a canary bird, and it was a fine singer. A 



