Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — A CLEVER PARROT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A CLEVER PARROT.

Polljr Mimics a Colored Clergyman in Giving Out a Text. One of the brightest and most mischievous of parrots lives in the Hotel Normandie, at Washington, D. C. This bird can instantly repeat every sound he hears, and he imitates so perfectly that his listeners wonder. Upon a certain Sunday morning his cage was for gome reason removed from where it had usually hung and placed In the open window of the linen room of the hotel. Opposite this window are those of an African Methodist church. The church window's were also open, and when the colored minister had given out a text he was astonished to hear his words repeated, in tones even louder than his

own. The people in church were amazed; but judge their surprise when, as the minister spoke his text for the pecond time, again it was screamed back at him, with an exact imitation of his voice. A hymn was begun, and the parrot at once joined in, mimicking the singers perfectly. The service was then stopped until a message could be sent to the hotel and the parrot’s cage removed.

THE CULPRIT.