# Lesson 45

- Source: McGuffey's First Reader (first-reader.gutenberg.org), Public domain, William Holmes McGuffey, 1879, via Project Gutenberg
- Reading level: Grades 1 and 2
- Subjects: Stories, Animals
- Topics: polly, lucy, calls, poll, bird, flew
- Length: 123 words, about 1 min
- Original: <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14640>
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ap'ple mew tease crack'er down new sil'ly a sleep'

wants calls knew friends up on' flew Poll Pol'ly

Lucy has a new pet. Do you know what kind of bird it is? Lucy calls her  
Polly.

Polly can say, "Poor Poll! Poor Poll! Polly wants a cracker;" and she can mew like a cat.

But Polly and the cat are not good friends. One day Polly flew down, and lit upon the cat's back when she was asleep.

I think she knew the cat would not like that, and she did it to tease her.

When Lucy pets the cat, Polly flies up into the old apple tree, and will not come when she calls her. Then Lucy says, "What a silly bird!"

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