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eat them myself. I soon grew to enjoy 

 being on his desk. It was so nice to 

 hear him talk ! And I think it must 

 have been because he had two or three 

 dictionaries always at hand that I soon 

 grew to understand lots of words. You 

 see, I used to hop about on the diction- 

 aries hour after hour, and eat from 

 them, and often when Fessor opened 

 the pages and pointed with his finger at 

 certain words, he would read them aloud, 

 as he said, to get the different pronun- 

 ciations ; so that, as I looked where he 

 pointed, I soon knew the words pretty 

 well myself. 



You see, I was different from other 

 birds. If I had been out of doors all 

 the time with my own father and mother 

 and other birds, I should have known 

 nothing of men and women talk. I 



