The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-05-16

He a small, blue-crested Amazon his feath
in the main green. The beak was circled
with blue and a patch of yellow and the shoulder
capped with red. Large feathers of magnificent
>lue, red and yellow were sheathed in wing and
all
But his marvellous intelligence and affection
were the wonder about him. He was also greedy
after Strawberries pears and green corn He
loved to tear the rattan of wicker chairs, and to
pick at embroideries of screens. But then he was
not three years old. He was, however such a
delectable little mortal, and loveable you
passed by his foibles and thought rather of his
sense of justice, his warm affection his feeling
alone-his own dignity his marvellous intuition
and when he was in high spirits his clever humor
After his first visit Polly came often He told
much he had learned-some of which no one
taught him. Then again he said what no one but
himself ever exactly understood, but what seemed
to give him great comfort. At such times he
murmured pretty nothings under his breath for
hours, now and then climbing and kissing
at one through the wires if he were in his cage
When took him from his little house I put nv
land just inside his door, and he stepped on my
forefnger. After 1 had bore him out he would
walk up my arm and sit on my shoulder, con
stantly interrupting his activities to carress r.
cheek
But on such a vantage ground he was not in
clined to ideness. He would pull out and throw
down hair pins, undo the fastenings of my collar
and stretching his cunning head cut buttons off
the front of my waist, using his bill scissors.
Some studs I substituted for buttons he used to
saw at, and turn his head and blink his bright
eyes over, apparently considering why he could
not cut them off he had the buttons.
He took exercise a wicker chair, and
this he never tired of swinging. 1t tickled
his funloving spirit also to prance along the top
Of a Japanese screen, and he would almost dislo-
cate his little neck in reaching for the flying
cranes embroidered below. Tufts of paper and
cloth to catch his attention and divert him from
the embroidery he would tear to tatters, and then
stretch again after the golden
He had marvellous pertinacity and thing he
failed to do one day or one occasion he would
try for again. evidencing usually a pretty accu-
rate measurement of what was necessary to ac-
complish it-he appeared to have been studying
the matter since his last attempt.
One of these endeavors of his was to get the
soap 1 used when washing his dishes and cage.
He would watch where put the shining cake and
then for it with all the speed he could muster,
his course showing that he reasoned and thought
out the sally
There were times when I wanted to put him in
his cage and he did not want to CO. Then he
would edge down my back below the shoulder
blades and there chase from left to right and
right to left, playing hide and seek with great
gusto. When | put my finger side mean
ing, he knew, that he should step upon it, and
say "Poy!" he would laugh in ceverest imita-
lion of my laugh and run to the other side, pre-
cisely as if pretending he did not see my finger.
He would not only laugh in a most musical way,
but he would bark NEW, sing and the scale.
What an intelligent little creature he was And
so warm-hearted toward those he loved But to
many he made no expression whatever and passed
them without a look. A chambermaid he saw
every day he disliked and when she offered him
her finger he pinched it numerically. One day
When she showed him the drop of blooC he had
drawn he threw back his head and laughed till
he nearly fell off his screen
And yet his sympathy wonderful He had
a wonderful aptness at taking on the mood of the
one who had gained his devotion and he seemed