Author: Emily Carr

Sally and Jane

Published: 1953
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Heart of a Peacock

Sally was an Australian lemon-crested cockatoo; Jane was a green double-yellow-faced Panama parrot. They hated each other. Parrots, all parrots, are bitterly jealous. Sally was a sweet-tempered, meek bird; Jane was vicious—her orange eyes would dilate and contract their pupils in spasms of rage. Sally’s eye, round and…

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Uncle Tom

Published: 1953
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Heart of a Peacock

Tom and I met in no-man’s-land. What of each other we did not understand we were content to leave unexplained. Uncle Tom was a vulture, a common turkey-buzzard. I acquired him in the Indian village of Sechelt. Indians had stolen him from the nest of his vulture…

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One Crow

Published: 1953
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Heart of a Peacock

The tops of the pine trees shut out the sky. Down through their branches tumbled screeches and the flapping noise of many wings. Above the tumult rose an agitated treble screech. “Small! Small! Where are you?” Small’s reply was almost drowned by the screaming of crows, the…

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