Her parents believed there would be time enough yet for her to learn a great many things; and her ignorance had never distressed them half so much as her faults of temper.
"Did you ever go as far as Boston before ?" pursued Adolphus, rather grandly, in his turn.
"No, I never," replied Dotty, meekly; "but Prudy has." "So I presume you haven't been in Spain?
It was there I bought my beautiful rabbit.

Were you ever in the Straits of Malacca ?" continued he, roguishly.
"No--o.

I didn't know I was." "Indeed?
Nor in the Bay of Palermo?
The Italians call it the Golden Shell." "I don't _s'pose_ I ever," replied Dotty, with a faint effort to keep up appearances; "but I went to _Quoddy_ Bay once!" "So you haven't seen the _loory_?
It is a beautiful bird, and talks better than a parrot.

I have one at home." "O, have you ?" said Dotty, in a tone of the deepest respect.
"Yes; then there is the _mina_, a brown bird, larger than a crow; converses quite fluently.

You have heard of a mina, I dare say." Dotty shook her head in despair.