Beaver County News | 1916-05-19 | Page 2 | Children Teach Rook How to Talk

Children Teach Rook How to Talk. , It is said that the first instance of a rook developing the power of taiR 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 five years ago, when it was still quite k young, in a local rookery. By patient precept and careful study they taught the bird several words and now sh& 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 can bo trusted not to make her escape.