Davy Jones' Parrot (1910)
"Bless me malling spikes, but he's a good 'un and talks like an orator. Just watch how he handles that lookout nipper of his. Why, he's as eloquent as a preacher!" said old Captain Jones, as he holds converse with his parrot. The bird attracts the attention of Mr. Lee, whose wife and daughter have expressed a strong desire to possess the parrot. "My good man, what'll you take for that parrot?" asks Lee. "Five dollars," says the Captain, and the deal is closed by the payment of the money. The "Cap'n" goes on his way rejoicing, while the new proprietor of the parrot is somewhat disturbed by his somewhat compulsory purchase. Placing the parrot under his coat. Mr. Lee hastens to a near-by store to buy some sort of a cage for his feathered companion. While looking over an assortment of cages and satchels, a funny-looking floor walker comes along who attracts the parrot's attention, who shouts out, "Get onto his nibs!'' very much to the embarrassment of Mr. Lee and the disgust of "his nibs." With his bird safely caged in a portable bird satchel. Mr. Lee gets on a street car; he no sooner seats himself than the parrot pipes out the command, "Ring up that fare!" The passengers are delighted, and Lee apologizes for his talkative charge. The fun grows when a fat woman crowds into the car. "Bring her in sideways. Well, you rascal!"' is heard from the satchel, but attributed to the passenger by the fat lady, especially to Mr. Lee, who escapes from the car pursued by his accuser. Arriving at his office, tired, hot and upset, he places the parrot on a chair and goes to his desk and gets down to business. While thus engaged a giddy old maid enters and wishes Lee to dispose of some stocks she hands him. "Oh, you kid!" breaks out from the satchel, and completely the spinster, who seizes the stocks and indignantly leaves the office. A sanctimonious old deacon now comes in and starts talking; so does the parrot, but more expressively than eloquently. The deacon is horrified, and will listen to no explanations. He has been insulted and will have none of it, takes his hat and escapes from the vile place. Looking at his watch, the man of business finds it is time to keep an appointment, puts the parrot in the large safe vault, closes his desk and quickly goes out. The scrubwoman comes in to straighten up the office and hears faint cries of "Help!'' She is startled and looks about for the one in distress. At last she locates the trouble in the safe. The janitor comes in and he, too, gets excited and calls up the police, who rush in and try to open the safe. As a last resort they send for a "cracksman," who comes to the rescue, blows open the safe, to find it devoid of any human sufferer. While they are discussing the situation, the occupant of the office returns and shows the irrepressible parrot, which he takes from the satchel and throws out of the window. The old salt who was the original owner of the bird, is standing against the railing outside the office building, filled with the net expenditure of the sale price of his parrot, full of "smiles." While in this happy mood, down flutters his old pet. The old salt thinks he "has 'em," recovers himself, picks up the Polly, and under full sail makes his way back to his bark, throws himself into his hammock, and soon is lost in peaceful slumbers, while his talkative friend is triumphantly perched on the old sea dog's masthead.
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