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Show Children Teach Rook How to Talk. It is said that the first instance of a rook developing the power of talk was recorded in England recently. The bird is the property of two schoolchildren school-children a little boy and girl living . in Horsham, England. They caught it Eve years ago, when It was still quite young, in a local rookery. By patient precept and careful study they taught the bird several words and now she proudly boasts of a vocabulary close upon one hundred simple words.- .She is often allowed out in the garden, for, although she can fly swiftly and strongly, she Jban be trusted not to make her escape. |