Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1917 — Think O’ That. [ARTICLE]

Think O’ That.

They were talking about wonderful parrots when Col. Harta Beetem pulled a chair up to the little circle. “Wien I commanded the Sally Lun, plying between Cape Spuds and the Malay with cargoes of typewriters and mouth organs.” Beezer was saying, “I had a parrot aboard that could, whistle ‘Home, Sweet Home,’ so beautifully,'so touchingly, that the tears would-posi-tively run down our faces.” “When I was a lad,” chimed in young Wullup, “we had a parrot at home that could Imitate a cat fight so faithfully that we all used to stand around and roar with laughter till we had to leave the room for fear of doing ourselves an injury." “Remarkable!” said Col. Harta Beetem, courteously. “But let me tell you. gen tiemen, of a parrot that I kept for company in my lonely tent while I was snaring lility birds for the Perkins In southern Yaloo. That bird, gentlemen, could sing ‘The Jolly Blacksmith’ so perfectly that,” believe It or notsparks would fly from its ing tall!” —Detroit Free Press.