Give him a bone." The boys brought Jim in the parlor, and when he heard her funny, little, cracked voice calling him, he nearly went crazy: "Jimmy, Jimmy, James Augustus!" she said, which was Jim's long name.
He made a dash out of the room, and the boys screamed so that Mr.Morris came down from his study to see what the noise meant.

As soon as the parrot saw him, she would not utter another word.

The boys told him though what she had been saying, and he seemed much amused to think that the cabin boy should have remembered so many sayings his boys made use of, and taught them to the parrot.

"Clever Polly," he said, kindly; "good Polly." The cabin boy looked at him shyly, and Jack, who was a very sharp boy, said quickly, "Is not that what you call her, Henry ?" "No," said the boy; "I call her Bell, short for Bellzebub." "I beg your pardon," said Jack, very politely.
"Bell short for Bellzebub," repeated the boy.

"Ye see, I thought ye'd like a name from the Bible, bein' a minister's sons.