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THE PARROTS.
9
Nature, as it were, sometimes attires birds and
other animals in dresses that may well appear
to us as a satire upon human frailties."
" Look at the Toucans," said the parrot;
" they are gaping with their huge, ponderous
bills, trying to take in the fib entire, for they
must swallow everything whole; they never can
take anything in piecemeal, as we can, or tear
anything into pieces for their own gratification.
I wonder if they got a good dose. They are
the last who get it, and return it fashioned into
a nice little ball that runs gaily along. Here
it comes back. Did you say so ?" said the
cockatoo to his neighbour, and added to me:
" I can’t tell yet if it is another story, or if it
is the same, on return, dressed up by all the
gossips. Oh, how shocking the story now
runs! Everybody was invited to the grand
wedding, and the Toucans were to have
officiated and to have given away the bride, but
when they arrived at the bridal chamber, where
the little lady-bird had been caged, they
found that the bride and bridegroom already
had quarrelled, for she had fainted on the floor.
Rumour says that the young rascal of a
bridegroom had already been beating her, and in-
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