It was exactly like a human voice. Matilda said, “That's amazing! What else can it say?”
“Rattle my bones!” the parrot said, giving a wonderful imitation of a spooky voice. “Rattle my bones!”
“He's always saying that,” Fred told her. “What else can he say?” Matilda asked. “That's about it,” Fred said.
“But it is pretty marvellous don't you think?” “It's fabulous,” Matilda said. “Will you lend him to me just for one night?”
“No,” Fred said. “Certainly not.” “I'll give you all my next week's pocket-money,” Matilda said. That was different.
Fred thought about it for a few seconds. “All right, then,” he said, “If you promise to return him tomorrow.”
Matilda staggered back to her own empty house carrying the tall cage in both hands.
There was a large fireplace in the dining-room and she now set about wedging the cage up the chimney and out of sight.
This wasn't so easy, but she managed it in the end. “Hullo, hullo, hullo!” the bird called down to her. “Hullo, hullo!”
“Shut up, you nut!” Matilda said, and she went out to wash the soot off her hands.
That evening while the mother, the father, the brother and Matilda were having supper as usual in the living-room in front of the television,
a voice came loud and clear from the dining-room across the hall.
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