The canaries, and pigeons, and doves, the hotel people had allowed him to take to his room, and they were safe.

The parrot was lost--an educated parrot that could answer forty questions, and, among other things, could take a watch and tell the time of day.
Jack Morris told him that they had it safe at home, and that it was very much alive, quarreling furiously with his parrot Bella.

The old man's face brightened at this, and then Jack and Carl, finding that he had had no breakfast, went off to a restaurant near by, and got him some steak and coffee.

The Italian was very grateful, and as he ate, Jack said the tears ran into his coffee cup.

He told them how much he loved his animals, and, how it "made ze heart bitter to hear zem crying to him to deliver zem from ze raging fire." The boys came home, and got their breakfast and went to school.