They blinked at him, their eyelids coming up over their eyes from underneath, as you must have noticed in parrots; looking very solemn as they did so. Then Beaky said,
“If she do it
She shall rue it!”
But Tweaky said nothing at all; only winked again more solemnly than ever.
“Good Beaky!” said the man, “naughty Tweaky!”
Then he went away.
As soon as he was out of sight, the maid began her games. She picked the locks of his cupboards and ate the sugar, she ate the biscuits, she drank the wine. Beaky hopped into the room, stood on one leg, and shrieked,
“Naughty maid!
Aren’t you afraid?
Master shall know,