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The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Buy pretty Polly! (search)
study; a pale-faced, nervous bachelor, who makes his housekeeper go about in list-shoes, and would make the cat do so also, had not nature, in consideration of Mr. Forncett's nerves, given her a pair of velvet of her own. About a month back, as I was getting out of a railway-carriage at our little station, who should I see but CalCaleb Forncett getting into one! After we had shaken hands. e in the carriage, I standing on the platform, and he had told me that he was off to London for a fortnight, he exclaimed: "Oh, B., we've got a parrot, and Morris doesn't know how to feed it. She gave it some of her supper last night — bread and cheese and beer. Will you able at last, and had generously given it away half-a-dozen times; but it always came back, like a bad sovereign, to its owners. That day fortnight, when Caleb Forncett stood at the door of his house, he could scarcely believe it was his own. It might have been appropriated as a foundling-hospital during his absence: out of e