Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1919 — PARROT TALKED TOO MUCH [ARTICLE]

PARROT TALKED TOO MUCH

California Hunters Use Their Shotguns on Bird That Spoke German. .. ?X . OnWanrtr&tf: —Pluto, a much traveled parrot belonging to Mrs. J. H. Rathbone, Tunnel road, has changed his luiulwl two~meir~trr: jail and lost his tail feathers, all because he insisted on speaking German. Dominlco Garerane, Italian, and Mathew Grasseponie, French, were hunting near the Rathbone residence. Suddenly they heard a stream of disloyal German, such as “Hoch!” “Raus!" and “Gott mit.uns!” issuing from a buSh. Garerane and Grasseponie looked tit each other. Then by a common impulse they clutched their shotguns and advanced on Pluto. There a roar of artiUery. Pluto and his tail feathers parted company. A game -warden, J. L. Bundock, who was in the vicinity, rushed to the spot. He found two indignant hunters, a denuded parrot babbling German and some tame pheasants. The hunters said they were after Pluto, but the "warden ldbked_askance at l jthe pheas: ants and brought the men to the city. The parrot, according to Mrs. Rathbone, was the gift of a German sea captain and learned the language while on a sailing Jttssel.