Note: Seven years ago or so, I wrote a series of articles that appeared in the Quaker Parakeet Society's quarterly newsletter. This is the third of those articles.
Recently one of my Quakers said something so very appropriate that he had me once again deep in thought over how easily these birds pick up our language. It was one of those situations where I did not directly teach him these two phrases, especially not together in the way he used them. Instead, his intellect and language skills allowed him to put the two phrases together in a way that was very meaningful.
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