When Mattie
calls the parrot, named King George, foul-mouthed, she means it likes to curse. Mattie also
calls it rude. It was won in a card game, and it lives in a cage in the coffeehouse. It no doubt
hears bad words it imitates when sailors and other rougher characters come into the
coffeehouse.
Mattie calls it the foul-mouthed parrot after it goes missing,
which is when she finds the coffeehouse has been broken into. Someone smashed a window and
looted the shop, taking the pewter, the coffee, spices, meat, beans, and onions. Broken crockery
is everywhere, and King George's bird cage is on the floor, smashed to pieces. The looters have
fortunately not taken the linens or the money in the money box. However, Mattie's mother and the
parrot have disappeared.
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