Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — The Best Parrot Yarn Yet. [ARTICLE]

The Best Parrot Yarn Yet.

A man whose niece had coaxed him to buy her a parrot, succeeded in getting a bird that was warranted a good talker. He brought it home, and after putting it in a cage, stood before it and said: “Say uncle, Polly!” The bird did not respond, and after repeating the sentence a dozen times or more with ho better success, the uncle put hit) hand into the cage, and grabbing the bird by the neck shook him until until his head wabbled around, all the time yelling to him: “Say undo, goll darn you; say uncle!” The bird looked limp and lifeless, and, disgusted with his purchase, the old fellow took the parrot out in*6 the yard where he had a coop of thirty chickens. Thrusting the half dead bird in with the chickenaf he exclaimed: “There, by goshl You’ll say uncle before you get out!” Next morning the uncle went out to see. how the parrot was getting on. Looking into the coop he counted twentynine dead chickens, and in the center of the coop stood the parrot on one foot, holding the thirtieth chicken by the neck and shaking it till its head wabbled, and screaming: “Say uncle, goll darn yer; say uncle!” The value of Montana, mines and all. is $18,609,802.