MAKING A PUDDING.
Mama is busy this morning making a pudding, and the children are watching the process with great interest. Richard is asking her whether she is going to use all that great loaf of lump sugar in making it. Tom seems to know better, and is telling him if she were to put all that in the pudding it would be so sweet that they would not like to eat it.
“HOW DO YOU DO, POLL?”
“Poll” is a fine parrot, and seems very happy and contented, swinging there on his perch. He likes to be talked to, and can answer very plain. If you say to him, “How do you do, Poll?” he will answer you, “Quite well, thank you, and how are you?” Poll is quite a companion, he is so intelligent.