’m Becky

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

Some of the people of Lilliland had a pet or two. One pet store in Lilliland had a beautiful colorful parrot, Becky, for sale in the front window for all the passersby to see.

One person liked Becky and decided to pay the fifty-dollar price for the bird. The pet storeowner said that Becky was very talkative and would say “I’m Becky,” quite a bit.

That turned out to be an understatement because after a week, Becky’s new owner said enough was enough. All Becky would say, time after time, day and night, was “I’m Becky.”

The pet storeowner took Becky back and placed the parrot in the window for a new low price of forty-dollars. The next day Becky was again sold. The new owner liked Becky very much but after only four days returned Becky because the parrot kept saying over and over again, “I’m Becky.”

Becky was returned and placed in the pet shop window at a new low price of thirty-dollars. Becky was again sold and taken to her new home but after only two days the owner wanted to trade Becky in for some gold fish. The pet storeowner obliged and Becky was back in the window at the new low price of twenty-dollars.

Becky was quickly sold to a couple. The man bought the parrot and waited to meet his wife who was shopping next door. When the wife saw and heard Becky say, “I’m Becky,” ten times in only two minutes, the wife said no to Becky. Becky didn’t even make it out of the pet store.

Things were looking like gloom and doom for Becky.

Then a kind elderly gentleman saw Becky and purchased the parrot. He told the storeowner that he did not hear very well.

This time it worked. Becky could say, “I’m Becky” all the time and the new owner could hardly hear her.

It seemed that Becky at last found a happy home and the gentleman found a new, feathered friend.

When Lady Angela of Alpine Castle, the Baron’s fiancée, first told the Baron about Becky, the talkative parrot, he thought that the story would end on a sad note, but he was delighted to learn that Becky and the elderly gentleman, who finally adopted the parrot, were very happy together.