“ A crowd of people came rushing into the car, and among them was a man who looked like a sailor, who insisted upon taking the covering from Polly’s cage and holding her up to the light.“Belong to you?” he said. “Don’t want to sell her, do you?”Sonny Boy’s heart gave a great leap. He was himself so very tired of Polly’s voice, and he had so dreaded to take her back to Aunt Kate, that it did not seem to him possible that any one could want her.“She’s a handsome bird,” continued the man, “and hasn’t she got a voice! She isn’t exactly the bird for a home pet, but at a show she’d draw. ”
Sophie Swett
Summary
“Sonny Boy”, is a work by Sophie Swett. It explores elements such as Sonny Boy, Plummers and parrot.
Quotes from Sonny Boy (Sophie Swett)
“ But none of the Plummers were so much surprised that Sonny Boy had learned to be a Wild Man as they were that he had learned spelling and fractions and straightened out his stooping shoulders and his bow-legs!Sonny Boy explained that he had done it to help a slower and a crookeder boy than himself. And when Otto came down to Poppleton to pay Sonny Boy a visit they understood a little better.Lena came, too, and they brought the white mice, and those skillful performers took part in the barn show. ”
“ And he is still telling the hospital children, over and over again, all the wonders of that procession in which he rode to the end of the route on the buffalo, and then back to the tent in the Fat Lady’s chariot! For Sonny Boy found the Wild Man both a kind and influential friend.He has learned to be a Wild Man himself; there was a show in the Plummers’ barn, at Poppleton, in the fall, that many people thought equal to a grown-up circus, and the Wild Man was the chief attraction. ”
