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33 6 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
besides, the truth will be all the more valued
when it does make its appearance —afterwards
though it is very seldom it finds its way to
the front again—like wheat amongst the chaff,
and we supply the chaff. You have heard of
white lies—well, such must be my words; I am
white, spotless—I am frequently the author
of many such words of fiction," laughed the
wicked parrot. " It is coming! It is coming!"
he screamed with delight.
"What?" I asked.
"The fib! the fib 1 I see it in the twitter
of the little innocent parrakeets, who first take
it in. I wonder if it will be a bone to pick
or sugar; both are highly relished in our
society."
And sure enough, there I saw a whole row
of little green parrakeets perched beside one
another, and they seemed to be transmitting
something to each other, for the one farthest to
the left turned his head to his neighbour on his
right and whispered or kissed,—I couldn’t
exactly say which,—and the neighbour sent it
on to his next on the perch, and so on. Was
it a fib or was it a kiss that these little
lovebirds sent round ? The President and I
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