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arm out and moved it slowly towards the 

 tempting morsel. Then, just as his hand al- 

 most touched it, although she was apparently 

 looking the other way, Polly suddenly picked 

 it up again, and Dohong, just as indifferently, 

 picked up a piece of straw from the very spot 

 on which the banana had been lying a moment 

 before. This happened no less than three or 

 four times, and it is difficult to say which 

 looked the most indifferent, or acted in the 

 most unconscious manner. It was the most 

 remarkable exhibition I have ever seen. 



And then Polly suddenly got tired of it, 

 and threw herself into a violent fit of rage, a 

 little habit of hers when things do not go just 

 as she wants them to. She made hideous 

 faces by drawing back her flexible long lips 

 and showing her teeth, thumped her hands on 

 the floor of her cage in exactly the same man- 

 ner as a man would thump his fist on a table 

 when excited; threw herself on her back and 

 screamed in such a shrill, ear-splitting voice 

 that my nead rang with the jar of it. 



But the funniest part was to come. Dohong 



