The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-21

Selu OK poulSuCy. Ae Wudo ~ odn
web we weave when. etc. Had nd
listened to expediency's voice
you can find out the moral of this st1 y
for yourself.
81 want to buy parrot" said /, "a
some sort-a good talker. and han&
some bird, and as like the one you'
sold as you've got"
''Ere's the IDENTICAL" said the birR
seller, producing cage containing
good looking bird enough, which a
informed me would talk very fairlH
would not swear, and was as handsod&
as the Russell square one. The pri&
was two pounds, and another for tfis
cage, so put down my three sover.
eigns, got with some difficulty "a small
mob of children following under the
idea the parrot was going to 'perforF9
a cab, aud went back to the Hillsfes
with my purchase, who REGARDED
with a sarcastic and baleful eyqus
head cooked on one side as we nt
along. Alas! his gaze was oulT MOO
suggestive!
81 am sure, MIR. Philton," said Fs.
Hillstone the next day at dinner, tKe
being collection of her war
fnie9d s--praseat.-44,l-a m.--a.e~s
obliged to you for your 'andsome pFI
rot, but 1 didn't want you to malf md
so valuable a present. u r
go, my dear Mrs. Hillstone," 5aidG,
availing myself of this opening dSx-
trousIy, Il am sure twenty pounds is
nothing when one gives any thing to
an esteemed friend like you.'
Twenty pounds for parrot! my
wordw said young Ruggle of the
Poultry. Il say, Dynley thought no
one but you would run to that figure
for bird. Amt that what you gave
for yours?'
Mr.. Dynley, an inofensive and hen
pecked man whom / knew little of,
muttered something inaudible and
blushed. while Mrs. Hillstone, to my
great delight, took up the dialogue.
Il dare say you wouldn't spend
your money so foolishly on any friend,
Mr.. Ruggle. l shouldn't think that at
all likely" she said, incisively, and for
once | felt grateful for her Madame
Angot style of emphasis, for young
Ruggle was effectually snubbed. But
hang him. he had hit on very ticklish
subject, for 1 had my suspicious, and
they were soon changed to certainty
Where does Mr.. Dynley live?"
asked of my neighbor, a prettyish in
sipid girl, who went regularly to the
museum to copy casts.
sin Russell square. Mrs Dynley i
a great friend of ours" she answere
she is so fond of birds"
Just what thought! Russell squa
that truculent bird fancier had sa
OF course there are more parrots t
one, but much smaller proportio
fools who would give twenty pop.H
for one. 1t might not be the same
| l shrewdly surmised it was. But q
all, who was to know srny tirr6fgzs mi
| l remembered with some misgivines
that my fair Alice had most abnornla |
attachment to candor. and had over
and over again apropos des bottles
declared she could forgive any thingl
rather than deceit. My little stratageGi
of course did not deserve that name,
| but after asserting l had paid twenty
pounds for specific bird of the first
water, it would certainly be most an
noying if 1t turned out by any mishap
that the real transaction came to light
At this moment | heard Mrs. Dynley,
who had masculine voice. well assert
ing with the rule she exercised over
her husband, asserting that her parrot,
sent her by friend, who was an
amateur fancier q breathed freely
again), was wonderful bird. To
whom Mrs. Hillstone replied, smiling
broadly:
"Ah! my poor Polly is as charming
its a famous bird-and | shall al
ways thank Mr.. Philton for having
given it to me. Yates. bring it in
yates was a page of preternatural
precocity, and much trusted by the old
LADY,, land let us hear it talk"
We were in the dessert stage now,
and the wine, must say, was really
very superior to that a good deal farther
West, so that the assembled company
were in a leisurely and appreciative
mood. Young Ruggle smiled sarcas-
tically when Mrs. Hillstone wasn't
looking, and Alice saw him and flashed
one scornful glance at him which much
delighted me. For had sort of a
notion that he had an idea of trying to
win that exquisite girl, and he was Ger,
tainly richer (and we'll he might be,
grubbing over some business ahQl'
sugar from morn till nightly than 1
His chief diversion was foot ball,
rough, laundering pursuit which alb
horred, as mine was billiards, wher
a pool of fellows with few sovereign
about them can be made. But this is a di
gression, only mention it to show how
very antipathetic we were, for he hat
a blunt style of conversation which h,
called honesty" as he called diplom
acy ''trickery," so that we loved eacl
other like couple of rival terriers.
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