OCR Text |
Show s ooj : pTDINNER OF FRJED PARROT. (Cincinnati) Times-Star ) Colonel Gocthils, the builder of the Panama canal, during his recent visit ,to tho states, described a domestic tragedy enacted at his home In the zone", Just a few day?; beforo ho took tho steamer for the north. "Ono ot the principal members of ray family, if not the principal member," siTid Colonel Goothas. "was a fine but talkative talk-ative parrot. Ho had a very extensive vocabulary, and never by any chanco was anyone else ever able to got In the last word. If he did not have I any appropriate come-back on his tongue's end when you wero talking J Vith him, he would fire In the last few words you had said to him. At first this loquacity was amusing, then a little tiresome, and finally rather exasperating. ex-asperating. "Ono day, when I was a little out of sorts, Polly's noisy tongue grated on my nerves and I told her to 'shut up' " 'Shut up, yourself,' she exclaimed '"If you keep on talking,' I exclaimed," ex-claimed," 'one of these days I'm golny to havo you fried.' "Two or three days after that tho colored cook had fowl for dinner, and It Listed rather funny, I thought 'What's the matter with the chicken?' I I demanded. " "Tnln't no chicken, boss,' the col ored waiter replied, 'that's the fried parrot you're eating. You know you said the other day that you'd fry that parrot If it didn't quit talking?" '"Seems to me I did say something of the sort,' I agreed '"Well, he didn't quit,' said the waiter." |