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Show HE SWORE. A minister had a swearing parrot. par-rot. He complained to a friend and the latter told him how to cure the bird of its profanity. He said, as soon as the bird begins to swear, to swing the cage around rapidly ton times and then douse a bucket of water on the parrot. The next time the parrot swore,the minister did as directed. Then after sitting the cage down ho glanced at the bird, half dazed and all its feathers ruffled, and asked: "Well now. how do you feel?" "Oh!" said the parrot, looking out of one eye in a quizzical manner, , "I'm all right, but where in the h 1 were you when the cyclone struck us?" |