rself, rushed at Mr. Paul and scratched his face.

"Oh, you bad Parrot!" she said; "did you not promise to marry me,
and take me to your golden palace?"

"Golden palace!" screamed Mrs. Daw: "why, you wicked bird, that's
what you promised me. Stay, ma'am, what did he say besides?--did
he promise you any bread and milk, or any Barcelona nuts?"

"Yes, he did--he did--he did," continued the Cat, scratching and
clawing the false, faithless Parrot as she spoke.

"Well," said Pussy, now fairly exhausted, "I hope you are
satisfied: if ever you come near our house again, I'll scratch
out every feather you have on your back;" and so she left him,
taking Fido with her, who, in spite of his general good nature
and the Parrot's rage, could not resist giving him two or three
sharp bites.

[Illustration: THE PARROT EXPOSED.]

As soon as Mrs. Daw was left alone with Paul, she began to
upbraid him with his falseness,--"You vulgar, stuck-up, ugly,
awkward deceiver! you have neither honesty enough to live by, nor
wings enough to fly with." Whereupon she jumped at him and gave
him such a plucking as spoilt his good looks.

Never after this was the Parrot able to hold up his head. Every
one scorned him; even his golden palace turned out to be a brass
cage; and for his misdeeds a chain was fastened round his leg. He
was confined to a wooden perch, which, out of pure spite, he was
always pecking.

Old Widow Daw kept her secret, and remained unmarried.

Tittums could not help admiring the constancy of Fido; and when
in the spring he had grown bigger, and was promoted to a sweet
red and black collar, Pussy found that she loved him very much
indeed, and made up her mind never more to forsake him.

[Illustration: THE PARROT GETTING A GOOD PICKING]

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