Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1913 — PARROT “CUSSED” A JURIST [ARTICLE]

PARROT “CUSSED” A JURIST

Case Was Going Well for Bird’s Owner, When It Talked Entirely Tob Much. New York.—When Armando, ths parrot of Mrs. Johanna Vogt, became a witness in his own behalf before Magistrate Geismar when an effort was made to prove that ho was an upright bird of decent birth, Armando certainly spilled the beans. “Why, judge," said Mrs. Ormsby Jandro, “this parrot is a loafer and a rowdy. There’s no living in the same block with him. Just the first minute It gets to be morning he begins to scream and chatter such language!” Mrs. Jandro clucked her tongue several times to indicate the unspeakable character of Armando’s soliloquies and stuck her fingers in her ears, wagged her head and rolled her eyes to indicate that a boiler factory would be a rest cure compared with the Vogt’s neighborhood. “He Btarts right in first, thing with ‘Go to hell! Go to hell! Brrrrrrrripp! Hell!’ And he keeps it up! If you shout ’Shut up!’ he answers right back, ‘Go to hell! Go to hell! Brrripp! To hell!”’ “Are you sure he says Tfo to hell?’" asked the court Just as Mrs. Jandro' was about to answer Armando ruffled h»s feathers, cocked his head to one side, blinked at the magistrate and said shrilly and clearly: “Go to hell! (to to hell! Brrrrrrrrripp! Hell!” “That’s all,” cried erunrel for Mrs. Jandro, triumphantly. Mrs. Vogt burst into tears. Armando fluffed his feathers defiantly and began anew: “Go to ” “Officer, take that bird out of here,” broke in his honor. The door of the corridor closed ,on a smoth«%il "Hell!"