GREEN PARROTS 
REEN parrots bear living testimony to the 
truth of the Psalmist’s complaint that the 
wicked flourish like the green bay tree. A 
more aggressively flourishing tribe of wicked 
birds it would be difficult to imagine. Green parrots 
live on the fat of the land, and let all the world know it. 
Nevertheless, their sins do not go altogether unpun- 
ished. A very considerable portion of the parrot folk 
are condemned to lifelong imprisonment in little metal 
cages, which, when hung out in the sunshine, are as hot 
as——well, as a tropical country can be! Such an 
existence, however, does not appear to depress a parrot. 
There is something sleek and self-satisfied about the 
bird which no amount of affliction can obliterate, I 
have never seen a “pretty Poll” who has not the com- 
plaisant air of a self-made man. Some human beings 
have a parrot-like expression. Such individuals appear 
to be proud of the fact, for they invariably hold a very 
good opinion of themselves. And it is but fair to them 
to add that, in most cases, this opinion is justified. A 
man with a parrot-like face is usually a good fellow. 
Even the self-satisfaction of the green parrot is not 
without justification ; the bird is beautiful. The com- 
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