Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — A Wicked Parrot. [ARTICLE]

A Wicked Parrot.

Every man who has a parrot is always telling what a wonderful bird is his. A lawyer in New York owns one of these “talking devils.” A friend went home with him to dinner recently, and when the two men were approaching the house the lawyer said: “My parrot can recognize my footstep as soon as it falls in the hall. When I open my door he always cries out from a back room, ‘Hallo, Will;, come in here.’ Now,” added the lawyer, as he slipped his key into the latch, “just listen.” They listened, and this is what they heard: “Hallo, Will, you. old bald-headed fool; come in here.” The lawyer, for one minute, looked as if the house had fallen oh him. And it was all the fault of one of his brothers, who had heard the lawyer boast so often of his parrot that he taught the bird to insert the “baldheaded” part. Now he can’t be broken of the habit.—New York Tribune.