A LANGUAGE LESSON

Below is a joke, but the lines are out of order.  Here is your challenge:  Reconstruct the joke by putting the lines in correct order (answer below).

The parrot:

1. “Ah, that's a shame. Buy this mirror. He’ll look at himself, and talk.”
2. “Foooooooood!”
3. “I’d like a parrot that talks”, he said.
4. “I’m sorry sir, but you have to teach your parrot to speak.”
5. “I’m sorry, sir – but tell me, before he died, did he say anything?”
6. “My parrot is dead”, he said.
7. “My parrot still doesn’t speak”, he said.
8. “Really? Which word was that?”
9. “Yes he did. But only one word.”
10. A man went into a pet shop one day.
11. So he chose a parrot and took it home with him.
12. The man bought the mirror and went away.
13. Two weeks later he returned a final time.
14. Two weeks later he returned to the pet shop.

Answer:  10, 3, 4, 11, 14, 7, 1, 12, 13, 6, 5, 9, 8, 2
Source:  Learn English.

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