Show sy MY MAW MAHAM GRAHAM banner you could have told from lettys eyes that she was a very bright bird the eyes ot of the bird always show just how much vil stion and intelligence the bird has and letty proved that she had a great deal when any one spoke to her her eyes looked very bright they watched the person who was speaking to her showing sh otting she wasll was listening and paying atten attention if her eyes had wondered wandered all about she would have shown site she was stupid A blid bird Is very cry much like lice a person in tills this way when you ou speak to people and they let their eyes ees gaze on anything and dont pay attention to tiny any one thing not so bright rind and keen letty belonged to a little girl named alice now alice fed her parrot some very nice seeds and bits of corn letty thought hought she had fine food and every day after lunch letty would have a piece jece of cake it wasa was a small piece but it was extremely tre niely good I 1 letty learned to say almost everything after a while my bly what a talker site she became and she wonted to show alice how pleased she was with everything so she chatted pleasantly most of tile the time when callers would come they would ask it if the parrot was ever still and then letty would say ever still no never neer still stall they always laughed then a and ad did not mind her chattering for foi after they had been there a little while let 41 v never never still ty muttered and said things in very low tones so us as not to disturb any one it was night time and letty had her head under her wing sometimes she slept tills this way just as a canary would sleep but often she would huddle up on her perch and doze doye off with her head dropping down a little on her chest cut but this night might she was sound sound alseen and her head was hidden away while she was dreaming of seeds ind and cale cake and all tile the goodies that parrots love all of the family were asleep when letty seemed to notice cometh something ing strange she like the smell that came to her ter now she wits was wide awake she want to disturb the family she was a good parrot and never disturbed any one who might be sleeping but tills this she knew was not right she was sure sine of jt the smell became stronger and there wits was something rather frightful about it she got off her perch rind and went into the room where alices daddy slept then she shrieked atthe at the top of her parrot voice never never still never still never still alices daddy woke rl ait up so did the other members member of the family and it was letty who saved them all sila had smelt lire fire and it if alices daddy noticed right awny the spark that had come out of the flie fire place which been put out as 03 carefully lare fully as usual would littye hoyo set lire fire to everything |