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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIX POLLY AND THE BOTTLE WHEN I'd got me fixed up and come back down the hall I heard her laughin' again; but it wasn't in the parlor this time. Steve and the girl was just goin' downstairs together and out on the street. And there was me, standin' on one foot and just lookin' after 'em. "Billy," say I to myself, "that's always the trouble with you--you didn't start soon enough. And you get eleven dollars' worth of new clothes on you that you didn't need at all. What you figurin' on doin' now?" "I don't know," I says. "Don't blame me. It ain't the start that counts anyway; it's the finish. But how much of a start do you reckon he's got?" I couldn't answer that. While I was standin' there somethin' happened that seemed as if it might help. I heard a funny little noise comin' out of the parlor--cooin', it was, and chucklin'; and then a funny sort of a voice says: "Quit! Quit!" I'd clean forgot about him, but it was the big green parrot hangin' in his cage over by the window, and he was swingin' upside down and talkin' to himself real sociable. "Quit!" says he. "Don't!" "Oh!" says I. It come over me all at once, and I went on into the parlor and over to his cage. "Hello, Polly!" I says; and then I stood and waited for a spell, till he might take a notion to say somethin' more. They said he was a real bright parrot, and he'd been present. He didn't seem in much of a rush with the talk though--just dangled round the cage, squawkin' and fussih' to himself like they do. "Polly!" I says again after a bit, to get him started, me not bein' used to their manners. "Quit!" says Polly. "Don't!" And then he went off in a long fit of his cooin' laughin'. "What was it he said to her, Polly?" says I; but all the parrot would do was grab hold of the wires with his ...
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