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Show H MOTILE' tZllr1AgriMlMKrXl FORTUNE TELLER8. "What sort of luck did ou bring the ninter today J" nskcd the lled-iiml- II I u o M n c a w , r.-5. . called Iledily for I 8hort. ' -- 'Tine," 8nld the TS r?" IMue-mul-Yellow thf y" Mncnw , culled M (f i) ll'uey for short. Kv 'l' li o 1 r voices j!,( i'!U- - nore vory 'out' IK$l i " and plercliiR " rwl J tlicy shrieked nt i I each other us I they talked. I V "Isn't It u Joke?" i I 1 asked Iteddy. V "Sure I" said 1 ' Illuoy. They talked iiulte like "Isn't It a Joke?" their master when Asked Roddy. they were nlone. W h e n i e o p 1 o passed by durliiK the diitlme they did not say niitlitii( at all, they inndo n funny nols-e, which was mip-posed mip-posed to sound quite injsti'ilous and wondctful, and then they did their work. Hut they understood each other quite easily. , "1 supposo It's busluess," said Rcddy. "Sure," said Iteddy iignlu. x "I nluujH like, n good day a day when therc'H plenty of lmslness, for the master's suke, but I do think U'h all u Joke." "Just tho wny I feel nbjut It," snld Bluey. Now Bluey nnd Iteddy slood all day on top of n stand. They had little dishes of grain and seeds nnd water, and when business was dull they had their meals. Their master carried this stand from plnre to place and Bluey nnd Reddy always wont nlong. They wero very handsome, with the Most exquisite exquis-ite of plumage, but, oh, what voices they had! It was their pride thnt they could be heard n mllo off, but they did not try too much of this In the daytime. They thought they might frighten people, peo-ple, but they rcertalnly mode enough noise to attract people to them, nnd to encourage them to help along the business. Now, tho business consisted of fortune-telling. There were mliny pieces of paper In a little box, and written on these bits of paper were fortunes af many JUnds. These fortunes told folkstlint'TheV'd become very wealthy or very poor. Soino said they would have hard times ahead, but that better bet-ter times would come soon. Others said .they would have a great deal of luck In the next cur, and nguln a fortune inld that the lucky one who received this fortune -would take n long nnd wonderful Journey and meet a rich man nt the end, nnd thnt they would live happily ever after, as the old-fnshloned story used to say. These macaws would poke their beaks down Into the little box and pick out a fortune of u ploco of paper with the printing upon It. They 'Were suppo-ed to tell by the looks of the person what sort of ii fortune he should hnve. They did nothing else but hand out fortunes all day long, and the master would say: "Come and have your fortuno told by either Reddy or Bluey. Only costs ten cents." Mnny people would come up nnd Reddy or Bluey would pick out a fortune, for-tune, and the people would go nwny, reading the piece of paper In a very Interested fashion. "I think," said Reddy, "It's a good Joke, nnd it's all right If folks take It that wny. But when they belle vo these fortunes that makes me mud. It makes me think so little of people. Why, the other day, u little girl camo up to have her fortune told, nnd I picked out a piece of paper for her. "I never know which paper I'm picking pick-ing out. I pretend to look at the person per-son und then U I think about It, ' n hut I don't nt all. . 1 I fuss a little bit "nl and then take tho fl piece I hit upon ffzfa' "Well, the for- 7f fr&J. tune this little 4Tp QFCjiy girl hnd snld that IU, j she was going to u J LL J take a long Jour- TTT m I ney nnd marry n jM"" n p. prince. Imagine Kir V " " K1,'"l.,: It Said She Was ?r 8Cn,00,1 Kut tM flolni to Marry a time- of the year ,!. and Imagine a rnnB (little girl marrying a real, grown up prince. "Gracious I She must study nnd play, and have a glorious long childhood child-hood before she should marry and become a grown-up. But It taught her that fortunes hadn't so very much sense. Sometimes they happen to hit things right. "But she had believed In them before, be-fore, and It showed her that no one knew what her fortune was going to be." "yes," snld Bluey, "fortunes are lots of fun, but It seems too bad that there are many foolish people who think they're tree." "And how we laugh at them when they believe the fortune we pick out," laughed Reddy, la fete shrieking volet. |