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rascal, clod-hopper, poacher, move on. Do yon mean to 
go, or not ? Wait, you rascal, you dolt, you execrable 
wretch, you—■’ 'Bravo, Polly! good, Polly. 5 'What, 
pull my hair; pull my hair; oh, oh; 5 as if it were being 
roughly treated : ' pull my hair; wait you rascal. 5 ' Ah ! 
ah ! such is life ! and such a life/ It laughs just like a 
man. After its illness it would exclaim in a melancholy 
tone : ' Ah, Polly is sick; poor Polly’s sick. Dear, dear; 
and this is poor Poll/ 
" This bird’s master had a Quail; and the first time 
the Parrot heard it call, it turned towards it and shouted : 
6 Bravo, Polly! bravo/ It would give the notes of a 
chord, and whistle the scale in tune, both up and down, 
clearly and with ease, though occasionally half a tone 
flat or sharp. It would also whistle one or two airs in 
strong and wonderfully pure tones; then it would sing, 
in a low beautiful voice : ' Oh, poor Polly; ’ and equally 
well the following song: ' 0 Pitzigi, 0 Pitzigi, bias’ 
anstatt meiner Fagott,’ &c. To teach it to sing, short 
phrases were selected, which it could clearly speak; for 
instance: ' Is the pretty Poll there ? ’ 'Is the lovely 
Polly there ? yes, yes/ It could also repeat a number of 
other short phrases, such as : ' Good-night; ’ ' get up ; * 
' Polly must leave the room; ’ and the like. All this 
goes to show its great powers of comprehension, and its 
wonderful faculty of understanding and rendering dis¬ 
tinctly the meaning of all it hears said. 
"As this bird is excessively tame, and is allowed to 
run all about the house, one need only say to it: ' Polly, 
go into your house ; we’re going to the window.’ When 
it immediately answers : ' Go home, go home; come 
on; ’ and, forthwith, it climbs the ladder, and goes to its 
cage.” 
