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Show Some rierr Patrol i. Mi's Amelia II. Edwards said of her parrot Uiat it hated alovo all things a hideous little Egyptian idol which she numbered among her treasures. A niece of Uie late. Peter Cooper has a parrot whose bcto nolr is the telephone. The minute any one takes up the receiver tho parra begins to scold and kecjs up such to clatter and chatter that ta hear a message la impossible. This parrot I is au accomplished bird and will run the chromatic scale. It expects to be rewarded with a fig. Once the fruit was not forthcoming, forthcom-ing, and fur three months thereafter neither was Uie scale. Miss Hannah Steweneou, who wai foryrors Theodore Theo-dore Parker's amanuensis, had a bird which could sing bars from several sev-eral operas, and not unmusically. It makes a difference In parrot's tones by whom It is first taaght, and this one had cajght Uie notes of a child. A Kew York lady exhibits a bird for which sho paid 00?. It does not begin to equal Miss Steven-sou's. Steven-sou's. Mad and tjjmit. |
