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Show SECRET DIVULGED BY PARROT. Servants In Nights of Merriment Had Forgotten Bird. Tho late George Wlnthrop Sands passed last winter at St Morltz. This robust and handsome youth, with his modest and pleasant air, was a great favorite with the distinguished band of curlers. bob-slelgher6 and skiers who frequent the sunny, snow-covered village of the Engadlno. There was a ball on Christmas night at the Kulm hotel, and Mr. Sands, who entertained George Corn-wallls-West at his table during tho ball supper, told as a bottle of champagne cham-pagne was being opened, a parrot story. "I once had a parrot," he said. ,!It was a gray African bird, an excellent talker. I went away for a month with my family, and of course the parrot remained behind with the servants. "Well, on my return I found that the parrot had learned a new speech. Every evening, at Intervals of 15 minutes min-utes or so, it would repeat: "Ha, ha, ha! Let's have another bottle. There's no one here to know. Plop! Gurgle-gurgle-gurgle!' " |