"Oh, it was all right, thanks! I got up now and then during the Night, and rested a bit, you know!"
MISCHIEF!
["As regards Home Rule, I did not, of course, say that there were only three Home-Rulers in the world—Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Morley, and myself. I said that ... there were no stronger Home-Rulers, except myself, than Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Morley in Parliament."—Mr. H. Labouchere, in a Letter to the "Times."
"Monkeys and parrots show much analogy in character and habits; they both possess extraordinary powers of imitation, which they exercise in copying man and his peculiarities. Monkeys 'take off' his gestures, and parrots his speech."—Napier's "Book of Nature and Man."
Oh, a merry mime was Jacko!
He could wink, and whiff tobacco,
Like a man (an artful homo) and a brother.
And the Parrot—ah! for patter,
And capacity for chatter
On—no matter much what matter,