The Little Parrot

By: Alicia Malet

Ms. Visher's class; Ms. Arshaumbeau, Principal

Centenial School, Denver, Colorado, USA

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Once upon a time there was a parrot. The parrot was little. The parrot was an orphan. Some of his friends were orphans, too. Some died of age and the rest died in a terrible fire. The parrot escaped, hurt. He was very sad. Almost everybody laughed at him because he had a blue stripe on his beak. No one else had a stripe on their beak. The parrot with a blue stripe is named Polly. When Polly went to the orphanage. He saw Julian, Polly has no one left in his family.

Polly asked,"Will you be my mother?"

She said, "She would be delighted to be his mother," Polly was sad because everybody made fun of him. At the same time he was happy because he at least had someone to care for him. He has no one in his family except for her. Julian didn't make fun of Polly, she liked the stripe on his beak. She wanted to have a stripe on her beak. She liked Pol1y.

Polly liked his new mother. Polly called Julian mom even though she wasn't. Julian felt like Polly was her real son. Polly felt like Julian was his real mother. Polly and Julian thought it was a nice thought even if it wasn't true. Everyday they got attached to each other. Pretty soon they started to play and play and play. They were very happy. One day Polly and Julian went to play. The next day a little boy tricked Polly and Julian into a cage.

Then he sold them to a pet store. The day after they were caught a person named Mark came into the store to buy a parrot. Mark looked at all the parrots.

He said, "Do you have any parrots that are already trained?"

Fred, the guy that was selling the parrots said, "A11 these parrots are already trained."

Mark said, "Do you have a very beautiful parrot?" Fred said, "I think their all very very beautiful." Mark stopped in front of a cage. The parrot in the cage is named Fredy. Fredy is a blue, yellow and red parrot.

Mark said, "I'll take him."

Fredy said, "Good-bye, good-bye ,good-bye." Fred laughed,"Good-bye Fredy." Mark came back the next day.

"Will my parrot come back if it flies away?" asked Mark

Fred said,"It is the parrots decision." Mark said, "I hope Jewel comes back."

Fred said,"The parrots name is Fredy not Jewel!" Mark said "It's my parrot ,I can name it what ever I want."

Fred said,"It's not your parrot you only paid enough to rent it for a week, if you want to buy it you'll have to pay $2,000.50 plus tax."

Mark came back again and said,"It's the third day since it flew away."

Fred was just kidding, he didn't want the parrots name to be changed. Fredy came in the door and flew into his cage,

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back, it's good to be back" squawked Fredy. Fred and Fredy liked each other a lot. Polly and Julian liked each other Iike,too. Polly and Julian were scared because Mark might pick one of them. Po11y didn't want to be separated from his new mommy. Julian didn't want to be separated from her son. They loved each other alot. Mark came back the next day.

He said, "I want a different parrot and I'll pay $2,000.50 plus tax to keep it."

Fred said "I was just kidding then, but now my boss said were going to raise the price because I love them so much, the prices are, priceless. Where going to keep them all. I am going to open a wild life park and your welcome to visit them if you'd like."

So Mark went to visit the park. Everybody lived a happy life after that, especially Polly and Julian.