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Show ' PARROTS LIVE FOR A CENTURY. Could Talk as Well as a Man If Edu I cated When Young. i There j no I'oul.t of the fart thai 1 he pano Is one or the longest lhet, 'r all animals There is a wellaa thentlcatcd cat,e of a giown man who used lo go to see a lemarkable talk lug cockatoo which his grandmother had personally known when she was a llttlo girl. So It Is probably no fair) story that the birds sometimes stir vlve for a centur), iuasmuch as actual knowledge of the particular fowl cov "red something like scvent) years. In the West Indies nnd elsewhere In the tropics pnirota are commonly allowed al-lowed to roam at will about hoiii-c sardens and at meal times, when the) hear tho clatter of plates they will j walk into the dining-room, climb on j the backs of tho chairs and Insist up on their sharo of whatever there Is ti I eat. It seems odd, when one comes tc think of It. that birds should be the only animals that can talk. There arc I other speaking birds heldes parrois of course, such as the crow, foi exam Pie, but panots are decidedly the most capable conveisatlonallsts. So excellent is the vocal organ with which a parrot Is provided that If II on!) had the reiiuisiie hialns It coule talk almost as well as a man Iloubr less the most Intelligent panots an the best speakeis, other thing" hi'lnp eiiual, hut, as alread) suggested. t)( pari ol however elever. can become n flrst-iato talker unless Its education has been begun early In life. |