It turns out that not only people can be alcoholics and foul-mouthed people. A parrot bought by D. Darrell for the occasion and intended for the priest suffered from these vices. Only this was discovered at the most inopportune moment. The author, as always, cheerfully and elegantly tells about what came of this, as well as other funny incidents, in the story “Mother of Marriageable Marriage.” The second story in the collection is “The Mockingbird” - the story of an island invented by the writer, where he almost began civil war over a love bird and a tree.