The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-09-18
IDAHO WORLD.


'4he Detroit Free Press relates this
Last Winter Gratiot-street salooI
keeper went to Cincinnati on a visit
and while seeing the town he came
across. q saloon sporting tbs Yieked4essl|
t&ksE 2iShsl&kuSge. Gnlliot street
stood " ana heard the bird RIP and
tear" for a straight hour, and when he
came home that parrot came with him
All. the way up here the purchase
event for, brakemen and baggagsmen,
ripping out 'oaths which Captain Kid
couldn't have handled, and the further
North he came the more wicked he
grew. Reaching Detroit his cage was
hnHg Up iuya saloon; apdG Jack hasTbeen
thsrGevet aince, up to friday. : H4was
a poor day when he didn't learn some
new oath, or slang expression, and
finally he became 80 That nobody but a
hardened villain could talk with him.
He was sold last Friday for $40, and
his owner Kept him about an hour and
then sent him as a present to minis
ter's wife who had been attentive to his
famil3(Fhgsicknessy sShGNaAvefy
xratehm, MvfnE Uften thought now Nice
it would be to have a talking parrot
around the house. Jack seemed put
outbyf the utpngr ofrovpets, and he
sat on his perch all Friday night and
refused to say a word. Saturday morn
ing the ministers wife started for Pom
tiac, and she carried Jacks cage into
her husbands study that neither might
helonesomei She had been gone about
an hour, and the good man was scrib-
bling away, when all at once the par
rot sbNlted:- a.k za.-.2 ,cT01a
Hearts is triumph"
The good man gave a jump and
lepfed Ont Of theiAde w. thinlhg that
a couple of bad boys were playing
euchre under the shade trees. He could
see no one, and, supposing that he was
mistaken, seated himself and began to
write again, when the parrot shouted:
"Not any gin, thank ye!"
Horrifed, the, clergyman looked
around and he saw Jack trying to wink
1t him. Half doubling il it was the
birdMHkh had spoken yet determined
to ind ont, he inquifedH "aVhatT 4 &
"Shqt up, or III put head on yc,"
replied Jack hanging to the cage with
one claw and shaking his feathers.
IN" Is it possible exclaimed the good
HAM, Y III diving nearer td'the cage
cSa%psss Ssst rss 'i i: I: aa na%s
Sang Jack swinging furiously on the
'svile bird, you shall go out Of hercr
said the minister in an excited voice,
II would as soon harbor a highway
man, on 70 .,~r -.
y.{Retea NIT hn,n cid JACK and then
hes4hnckl3d and cackJed asif he was j.,
heartily = 1s-.sz
cit is sin and shame that menI
have taught an innocent bird to use
z9oh sl9sguage" continued the good
man, as he picked up the cage.
"Hit him with beer tumbler," re-
piled the parrot, trying to fasten his
claws into the ministerial leg.
Little did my wife dream what a
Viper she, was bringing into, the house."
nQsed the nan una shall hire some
BOY to carry you away"
"Send for the Black Maria" replied
he bird, and while he was being car
led out he continued, "Who stole the
Tx lfss P SiSstSsi qf1acbeS La stos5 ana T
called to boy who was playing num-
ole-peg on the grass. 4
"Here bub," he said as the boy came
lp;ITtake the .trdotf somewhere and
I'VE him away, and I'll give yotf Two
billings"
'as0h, dry up ioww' groaned Jack,
eeming to know That he was to changed
places again. II
II eEFAinte33y Dne Hho will fake
Il Continued The minister. z1F have
eceiyed a., shock l which .1 fairly makes
,n1Chuck him under the table!1 called
he bird, as he went through the gate,
nd when hel was nearly block away :,
e could be beard singing: -.
"a We won't q homo tiff morning
Tnldaylight does appear"
W1rs NEcKrirs. Stephen Girard's :
ill prohibited clergymen from ever
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