| Show r frn r r nir n ir A barrels Parr els tussle with a the new york sun correspondent at scranton pa says on a sultry evening last week a bat flew into the sitting room of a house on washington avenue and dashed against the cage it struck the cage with force enough to drive it between the wires and it began to creep around on the bottem of the cage and flap its injured wings the parrot was asleep when the bat flew in but it got awake in an instant and it screeched and screamed and yelled oh my so many times that the lady of the house ran in from the biaza to see what the trouble was with the cami lys pet the moment she entered the room the parrot told the fluttering little creature to get out in a very shrill tone repeating the command a number of times the bat get out although it tried very hard to do so and the parrot got mad bristled up and dived from its perch at the puny intruder for a few seconds this parrot had such a lively tussle in the bottom of the cage that it upset everything and scattered seeds all around the room and then it b copped back to its perch and began to scratch its throat with its right foot as though it had been bitten by the bat gracious how that hurt the parrot yelled after it had stopped and smoothed out its wings and feathers the bat still wobbling about and trying to find a place to crawl out it find one and the parrot sau gout ill fix it and pitched at the bat again the little thing squeaked and tried to defend itself when the parrot attacked it but the ugly bird used both claws and bill and it soon had the bats wings torn into strips then it gave the bat a pinch on the neck shook it up and down dropped it suddenly and hopped to the top of tho cage and shrieked looking down at the dying little creature when the parrot saw that the bat was dead it looked at its mistress jumped from the perch to its ring and back again laughed and yelled out what is it mother the value of the parrot has doubled in the estimation of its owner since it killed the bat |
