A Parrot Joke

There was a man who traveled all around the world. Every city he stopped in he would buy something for his mother and send it to her. On one such stop he found a parrot that spoke thirty different languages. He immediatly bought it and sent it home to his mother.

A few days later he calls his mother:

``Did you like the parrot?'' he asked her.

``Oh yes,'' she replied '`It was delicious''.

``WHAT!'' the man cried '`You ate it! That parrot wasn't for you to eat! It spoke thirty languages!''

The mother paused for a moment and then said:

``So why didn't he say something?''

Vocabulary Help

• travel: viajar
• buy (buy, bought, bought): comprar
• send (send, sent, sent): enviar
• parrot: papagaio
• eat (eat, ate, eaten): comer

Mais histórias como esta podem ser encontradas no livro Read in English: Uma Maneira Divertida de Aprender Inglês, publicado pela Editora Novatec,

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