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Show Dfsth t rlltrrtd lntf.arlan. CrockyllaHwIu, tho teutcnarlan ir rot of the1 Zoo, li del 1 Crltpled ro terribly by rheumatism tint for tho ptut six months ho had not been able to mount his icrch, he snffrrpd uncom-llalninglyuDtI13onday, uncom-llalninglyuDtI13onday, when iho dU-cumi dU-cumi attacked his heart and ho sue cumbed Tlio circumstances surround-Ing surround-Ing his death w ere I athetlu On Mouday momiiu; Heal Kwpor Ityrne wis pitting through tho bird house, and, as Is his custom, apt reached the aged cockatoo an I Mill, ' dood morning Cracky, who was lying In his tagi , looked nt tho sitakcr j ltconsl) wllh Us barp littlo ejtn, now dimmed with sufftrlng, but mulo nu nniioiu4 ' Goodly, then, Crvikf," sail Mr IJjrne andhowalkHl away. Ho ha I almcwt rtflihcd tho dowr whtn ho luard n f olio littlo chirp. nd turning taw tho hoary bird irect njioil I U fevt. ' Ooodby scrcamod Crucky bruTtly, and ton ling ovtr on liis f.llo ho fill deal This cockatoo was at tho time cf his dvnth 101 years old, and his no is well an thinticuted Ho was brougl t to this country in 1710 1 y n sailor, who hod lurchascd him In China Themariiur f ol 1 his pet to Captain Y illiam Taylor, who, after ndlng thirty y cars In purl f)iug Crockys vocabulary, which hal U-eii sadly Mlod mi tho oyngo ocr, dkd, with his llfo work acxomjlUhed Tlio bird, j rofano no longer, after rpoud-Ing rpoud-Ing scleral years with tho family of Matthow Hair 1, became tho property of tho Dal Iwlus, w 1 gnco his surname. Thirty ytam later Hugh Madeira be-camo be-camo his iNjssessgr, and after iuing through vatioas hands it 1S73 ho was dounted to tho ' Zoo. rhiladil Lla Uccord |
