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ID
b22
Title
'The Parrot'
Genre
Story
Page Count
1
Word Count
1530
Publisher
T.P.'s Weekly
Publication Year
1928
Document Types
Uncollected Antemortem
Topics
Marriage, Pets

A man takes on a parrot, to the disgust of his wife. Returning from work one day, the parrot is gone, only traces of feathers and blood remaining.

In depicting an uncommunicative marriage, the tale has similarities to another early work, 'A Waddler'

In T.P.'s Weekly (London, May 26, 1928, p. 137) and the ebook edition of The Woman Who Had Imagination and Other Stories (Bloomsbury, 2015).