"Poll parrot" Quotes from Famous Books
... cage on the high road in the blazing sunshine? They might use the sense they were born with. Steady, old lady, steady!" cried Cornelia, soothingly, as the mare pricked up her ears and shied uneasily to the farther side of the road. "Yes, it's a cage right enough, and a poll parrot inside. Guess I'll pull up at that house, and tell the inmates that it looks for all the world like a blazing firework on the side of the path; enough to scare any horse in creation. This old lady is ... — Flaming June • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey |