Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1904 — Parrot Polite to the Last. [ARTICLE]

Parrot Polite to the Last.

“Old Adam Forcpaugli,” said a friend of the veteran showman, “onco had a big white parrot that had learned to say: " ‘One at a time, gentlemen—one- at a time —don’t cntsh.’ —~ "The bird h'ld, of eourse, acquired this sentence from the ticket taker of the show. "Well, one day the parrqt got lost in the country, and Mr. Forep,tugh leaped into his buggy and started out posthaste to hunt l’or jt_ "People here and there who had seen the parrot directed him in his quest, and finally, as he was driving by a cornfield, he was overjoyed to hear a fttmiliar voice. “He got out nnd entered tlie field, and found the.parrot in the middle of a flock of crows that had peeked him till he was almost featheripss. As tht> crows bit and nipped away the parrot, lying on his side, repented over nnd over: "'One at a time, gentlemen—one at a time—don’t crush.’ "