Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1914 — It Had Been a Rough Passage. [ARTICLE]

It Had Been a Rough Passage.

Jacob Hope, the head of Philadelphia’s famous phonograph school for parrots, said the other day: "There are worse things than a swearing parrot, and one was brought over on a German boat last month. His owner, a sailor, swore that this traveled bird knew no profanity, and a lady bought him. "But she had to bring him to me. The parrot, though he didn’t swear, had evidently spent .most of his time on shipboard in the ladies’ saloon, for what he would do was this: —•—-—; —*— L -—•• ■- "For hours at a time he would choke and gasp and hiccough as If he’d never stop, and then he’d slug out feebly, ‘Steward—bucket.’ ”