CHAPTER XLIX. 



(Jmazon Parrot. 



I HIS is a splendid creature, about the size of a Grey 

 Parrot, and one of the most intelligent birds I 

 have ever met with: an opinion that is not solely 

 based on my acquaintance with the specimen I had 

 the privilege of owning for a time, but on several 

 more that, from time to time, have been brought under 

 my notice. 



As I have already related "The Butcher's" history 

 pretty fully in another place, I must not enter into it 

 too minutely here, but may briefly say that I picked 

 him up for a trifle at a local bird-shop where I heard 

 him shouting, but not in an unpleasantly loud voice, 

 the words, "Buy, buy: buy, buy, buy!" in emulation 

 of the butcher next door : hence the name that was 

 bestowed upon him when I brought him home. 



"The Butcher's" repertoire, as I soon discovered, 

 was more varied than select, and he very frequently 

 blurted out the most objectionable of the expressions 

 he had acquired at the most inconvenient seasons. 



