Pippity

He said he once knew a parrot that was not as polite as "Pippity," the one mentioned in

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"Pippity," said I, to my trusty parrot, "we will linger here another day.

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"Pippity," I said, "I shall not go down again into the valley for a long time.

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During one of the excursions to the neighboring mountains, -- Pippity alone accompanying me, Grilly having gone to assemble his tribe for a fresh supply of cocoa-nuts, -- we were leisurely contemplating the great expanse of loveliness that lay before us, in the center of which our noble dwelling loomed up superbly.

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We took ship, Pippity and I, and sailed away to my old home in the north.

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Pippity was quite at a loss to know what to make of such persons as we met.

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But Pippity, who had been flying around me in the greatest excitement, got just above me, and planting his toes firmly against the rock, seized me by the shoulder.

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But Pippity replied only with a succession of loud shrieks growing ever louder and louder.

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All went well for about an hour, when, Pippity being absent after food, I came to a place in the rock where the walk suddenly ended.

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Pippity was off immediately to bring me breakfast, and about ten o'clock we set out in high spirits to make further ascent of this singular peak.

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