Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1881 — An Impertinent Mimic. [ARTICLE]

An Impertinent Mimic.

Young ladies who expect attentions from young men should not keep a too-well-educated parrot. A family in Nashville lias a parrot noted for its wonderful powers of imitating the human voice. The family also has a daughter whose especial duty is the care of the parrot. The young lady has a friend, a young man, who called at the house oneevening and pulled the door bell. The parrot, sitting in an up-stairs window, heard the jingle of a bell and called out: “Go to the window!” The young man was startled. He looked at the windows below and found them closed. He pulled the bell knob again. “Next door!” shouted the parrot, in a voice not unlike the young lady’s. The young man looked up and down the street in a puzzled sort of it way, as .if it had suddenly dawned upon his mind that he had made a mistake in the house. Concluding that he had not, he again rang the bell. “Go to the house!” cried Poll from his perch in the upper window. “WhaJ house?” exclaimed the young man. angrily, “ The workhouse!” shrieked the parrot. The young man concluded to leave for his house.—JWiV* panion,