Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — The Parrot’s Rebuke. [ARTICLE]

The Parrot’s Rebuke.

Parrots are queer creatures, and, like monkeys, sometimes seem like a very burlesque upon humanity. One South American bird had unfortunately learned on shipboard the habit of profane language. The mate, a little ashamed of the creature’s profanity, undertook a cure by dousing it with water at each offense. Polly evidently imbibed the reproof, for during a gale, when a heavy sea broke over the hen coop, and deluged hens and cocks pretty thoroughly, she marched up to the dripping fowls and screamed out, "Been swearing again, hain’t ye?”