Their hair was dressed in different ways; sometimes it was clotted with red pigment and seal oil, clubbed up behind, and bound round with a fillet of opossum-fur, spun into a long string, in which parrot-feathers, escalop shells, and other ornaments being fixed in different fanciful ways, gave the wearer a warlike appearance.

There were plenty of monkeys and parrots climbing and chattering around in the trees.

I used only the coke from Cowdenheath parrot coal for this setting; but had to mix it with Burghlee coke for the old system of setting.

But when they insist on an alternative to their respective theories, I suggest Puck as at least equally credible with Satan, Shakespeare, or the parrot-cry of imposture.

She is quite twenty-eight, you know, Mamma, so I suppose she knows best; but I should hate a religion that obliged me to kiss White Ferret curates in a parrot-house, shouldn't you?

Straight I wheeled my easy-chair in front of bird, and bust, and door; Then, upon the cushion sinking, I betook myself to linking Memory unto memory, thinking what this slave of parrot-lore What this lank, ungainly, yet complacent thrall of parrot-lore Meant by its "Obstructive Bore."

A flight of green parrots sweep screaming above your head, the golden oriole or mango bird, the koel, with here and there a red-tufted bulbul, make a faint attempt at a chirrup; but as a rule the deep silence is unbroken, save by the melancholy hoot of some blinking owl, and the soft monotonous coo of the ringdove or the green pigeon.

yesterday?that I understood it might be possible for a woman to countI have not time for the ordinary parrot-chatterers one meets.

That it has been abused I am well aware,that the parrot-system has been revived and also applied in infant-schools.