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The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Buy pretty Polly! (search)
the room where Polly is, who calls out instanter; "Ah, there you are, Mr. Clarke!" If another gentleman looks in the same way through the half-open door, Polly cries: "Ah, there you are, Mr."--,and always stops — it knows the name is not "Clarke," But this same Polly was the property of a sailor, who must have been a bit of a coward in a stiff no'-wester; and when the wind blows hard, the bird will cry by the hour together in the most distressed and supplicatory tones: "Lord have mercy on Bob Barnard!" attaching, of course, just as little meaning to its words as one of its kind in Antwerp, which repeats the Paternoster and Ave Maria exactly as if it were saving a rosary — a pious accomplishment it required from being, like the famous Vertvert, pet-parrot to a convent. The facility with which my pretty Polly picks up inarticulate sounds is really astonishing. Distant street-cries, conversations with great variety of voice and tone, yet without any articulate utterance, the creaki