Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1914 — Intelligent Bird. [ARTICLE]

Intelligent Bird.

“Bur-reds is intelligent,” Mrs. Brannigan observed, as she encountered her friend, Mrs. O’Brien. “Ye can tache ’em annyt’ing. Me sister has wan as lives in a clock, an’ whin it’s toime to tell th’ toime, it comes out an’ says cuckoo as manny toimes as th’ toime is.” “Thot’s ‘wondherful!” said Mrs. O’Brien. “It is, indade,” said Mrs. Brannigan. “An’ the wondherful par’rt ov it all is it’s only a wooden bur-red at thot!”— Judge.