Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — A Queer Parrot. [ARTICLE]

A Queer Parrot.

Parrots are queer creatures, and, Lke monkeys, sometimes seem like a very bnrlesque upon humanity. One South American bird had unfortunately learned on shipboard the habit of profane language. The mate, a little ashamed of the jpreature’s profanity, undertook a cure by dousing it with a bucket of water at each offense. Polly evidently imbibed the reproof, for during a gale, when a heavy sea broke over a hen-coop, and deluged hens and cocks pretty thoroughly, she marched up to the dripping fowls and screamed out, “Bern St centring again , hain't ye Editor's Drawer, in Harper’s Maga tine. Affected simplicity is refined imposture.—Boche/oncaitlL ,