Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29

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Florence's father.
Hello. Sally!" he said. '"What are
you doing way out hereY"
Then she commenced to chuckle
away, Pretty Polly, pretty Polly!" She
sang that al 1.-The way home. When
they opened the door Florence was sit
ting in the chair thinking about Sally.
She jumped up and grabbed her and
said, "Oh, fatheri How kind you are
for finding Sally!'
WALTER GRAHAM,
412 East Sixth street, Boyd street
school, grade B7, age 1s years.
Sally twined her head vainly. saying
Pretty Poll"
my, what an ugly bird!" said the
rabbit as he ran on.
This made Sally very angry, so she
few on.
A couple of blackbirds bit at her
bright feathers and a cat scratched
her leg, so she was ready to rest on a
fence near where q woman was wash
ing. Polly flew to the line and planted
her muddy feet on clean sheet. She
asked for a cracker, but bucket of
soapy water was thrown at her instead.
"Oh, dearl" she said; 'T didn't know
that everybody was so mean"
Sally flew on till she saw some chick
ems which little boy was feeding
grain. Sally tried to eat, but did not
like it very we'll. She few to the win
dow, saying please give Polly a
cracker" for she was no longer a proud
bird.
"Oh, mother! Come and see this
beautiful bird that can talk" called q
boy.
His mother told him 1t was a parrot.
"It must belong to some one, dear.
We will watch the advertisements"
When his mother came with the
cracker they coaxed Sally in the house.
Walter and Sally spent many happy
hours together, for Walter was Grip
pie.
Two weeks after the arrival of Sally
they found an advertisement for her.
They answered the advertisement, and
about the bird
When Sally saw Florence she hoped
to her shoulder, then flew to Walter
She could not seem to decide which she
liked best. -.
I'VE had such good times together"
said Walter. "She seems almost like
my parrot"
This made Florence think. She looked
at Walters poor bumped back, then
whispered to her mother: "l'H give
Walter my parrot, cause I've got my
dolls"
"All right" said mother; and Flor
ence went home without Sally. but
when she thought of Walters face she
felt repaid.
It was lonely without Sally, but on
her next birthday Florence received
another parrot, which she called Sally
the Second. -
Your niece, EMMA BOYD,
sos East Twenty ninth street, Los
Angeles high school, grade b.
The queer looking bundle was hard
to get open. The straps were unbuckled,
and an old coat taken off. To their
amazement they saw another coat
strained ON. These were taken off,
and still another coat and strap. These
were soon undone, and Tommy ex-
claimed. "WelL there is something,
after ALL" The something" was
small box tied with dirty blue ribbon.
Inside was an envelope, which was
quickly torn open. They FOUND very
poorly written note, which read like
this: ,.,.o,.
",roo too children who want a kitten:
ct don't no yer names but / hero yoo
say. 'alI we want for our birthday is
a Kitten So, go in yer backyard, and
700 will find the protest one coulo
Ai''O PEDDLER JIM"
''Well. of all the ways to give
nresent this is the funniest" exclaimed
EtheI. And then she laughed, Come,
let's see If there really is a Kitten.
1t didn't take very long to find 1t, Tor
on the back porch there really was the
nrettiest kitten they had ever seen. They
kept this strange kitten and named 1t
"Peddler jim" The original "Peddler
Jim' was never seen or heard from
again. HARRlEiI JASF En-
b95 Buckeye street, Pasadena.
AF last they got it opened, and to
their astonishment they found three
old blankets inside of the bundle they
had made so much fuss over
"Well," said Tommy, 'if had known
that that was all that was in it 1
would have finished my breakfast pe-
fore I came out"
eyes" answered Ethel, "I am sorry
1 bothered you"
They went into the house and told
their mother what they had found ana
she said: Bring them to me and let
me see what they are like"
She said they were not very good, so
the next day they sold them to the
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