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Show PARROT LIVES A CENTURY Could Talk ns Well ns a Man If Educated Edu-cated When Young. There is no tloubt of tho fact that tho parrot par-rot Is ono of the longcm-llved of all animals. There in a well-nuthontlented cao of a. grown man who used to bo to mo a remarkable talking talk-ing cockatoo which bin Kmnumothor hud per-fonnlly per-fonnlly known when aho wm a. little slrl. So It Ih probably no fnlry story that the blnls somotlmcH survlva for n. crniury. Inasmuch tin nctual knowledge of this pnrtlcular fowl covered wmitthlne like svonty yenrn. In tho West Indian and elsowhero In tho troplcM jiarrotx are commonly allowed to room at will about house gardens and at meal timca. when they hear "the clatter of plates they will walk Into tho dlnltiB-room. climb on the backs of tho chairs and Insist upon their fcharc of whatever there Is to dnt. It seoms odd, when one comes to think of It. that birds should be tho only animals that can talk. Thero aro other speaking blrda lx.'bldes parrots, of courne. Kuch as the crow, for example, ex-ample, but parrots' nre decidedly tho moot ca-pablo ca-pablo convurmUonAllstn. So excellent Is thu vocal organ with which a parrot Is provided thnt If It only had the requisite brains It could talk almost a well an a man. Doubtless the most Intelligent parrots are tho best speakers, olhor things being equal, but. ns already sub-Rested, sub-Rested, no parrot, howover clever, can become a flrct-rote talker unless Its education hus been begun curly In life. Chicago Chronicle. |