Farewell to the rest; he insists on pouring it all forth to the very last sentence.

Gabble, gabble, gabble; chatter, chatter, chatter; pouf, pouf, pouf; boum, boum, boum; he runs ahead eternally in one long discordant sing-song monotone.

The person who taught him must have taken entire months to teach him, a phrase at a time, paragraph by paragraph.

It is wonderful a bird's memory could hold so much.

But till now, taking it for granted he spoke only some wild South Pacific dialect, I never paid much attention to Methuselah's vagaries." "Hush.