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Show ' Children Teach Rook How to Talk. 1 It is said that the first instance of ' a rook developing the power of talk was recorded in England recently. r The bird is the property of two Bchool- children a little boy and girl living 1 In Horsham, England. They caught It ' five years ago, when it was still quite 3 young, in a local rookery. By patient ' precept and careful study they taught the bird several words and now Bhe proudly boasts of a vocabulary close e upon one hundred simple words. She i Is often allowed out In the garden, for, - although she can fly swiftly and f strongly, she can bo trusted not to 0 make her escape. |