Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-01-11
POLLY IN 4 CYCLONE.

Some days ago the daughter of an
old board of trader, who lives in one
Of those castlelike residences far
south on Prairie avenue satisfied a
passing whim by purchasing a par
rot. Now, her father is a man of very
few words, but this fact went for
nothing with the parrot. Before the
green and yellow feathered inguist
had spent SO much as forty eight
hours amid his new surroundings it
proved itself able to out talk the entire
family.
1t demonstrated that it was one of
those takers that insist on having
the last and loudest word at,night and
the first and fiercest in the morning.
In fine, the bird was way up in his
business. He seemed to fully and
thoroughly realize that he was born
and bought to talk, and now his one
purpose in life was to fulfil his mis-
sion.
The old board of trader is kind,
indulgent father, but he is also one of
the few men in this world who know
when they have enough. Poll was
too much.
The daughter taught the bird to say
and do many bright things, and among
others to salute her father with, All
there: How'd you like the weather
to day? This some how proved an
additional irritation to the old gentle
man, but nevertheless he tried TO
smile and look pleasant under it.
After enduring the pet beast for
several days the indulgent parent
tried to coax his daughter to let him
take it down and exhibit it to the boys
on charge. Secretly his point was to
lose the parrot en- route. But no, the
daughter was too familiar with the
plucking propensities of her fathers
associates to trust her sweet darling
Poll in the pits. Things ran on from
bad to worse, until finally one day
when the market had gone heavily
against him-and that, too, on a fake
cable from Russia-the old man went
home at night with murder in his
heart
Boiling into the house and past his
wife and daughter without seeing
them, he made straight for the con-
servatory, where perched the parrot
No sooner had he thrown open the
door of the exotic retreat than the
bird shugged himself and cried. All
there! How'd you like the market
to day?
Blank you'll Kissed the old man, and
catching Polly by the legs he swung
him round and round at arms length
about his head a score of times and
then dropped him. on the floor for
dead.
The daughter and mother having
followed the father on tiptoe stood
speechless, gazing on the exhibition
from behind curtains.
Presently the parrot began to show
signs Of recovery. He got upon his
feet wabbled to his pole, and after a
deXtrous use Of his beak and talons
he gained his perch. Then looking
about him in a dazed sort of way he
shrieked, Gee whiz-how the wind
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and daughter came about amid much
laughter and Poll gets a rosewood
perch.
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