The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-09-03
An ADVERTISEMENTS nN UENcE.

! An AJvrR TlSEMENT'a ntkl UENcE.
Hew Parrot Perpstrated q Little joke,
and Mt the Same Time Taught n GroaA
! Moral Lesson.
n. Y. Times
The wave Of grief that swept eve, the
second floor front of No. l2s McDJugL
street on Saturday evening, and cilcled
out with hourly increasing force to all the
houses in the neighborhood, returned in
gentle summer ripples yesterday, On
Saturday afternoon the pet parrot of Mrs.
Rogers, who occupies the second door
front, was swearing gaily in his &C.
;ustomed place between the windows, and
Mrs Rogers felt sure from a some what
varied experience with the bird, that he
was in unusually fine spirits. Attwilight,
however. the sulphurious characteristics
Of the parrots neighborhood had unac.
sountably disappeared. No stream OF
profanity filed the drowsy air; no harsh,
discordsnt cries awoke the dull echoes in
the next block. To oft.rep .ated inquiries
concerning "POly'S" inordnate craving
for crackers ther' was no reply. Aroused
BY the .Arro's unwonted silence, Mra
Rogers made Il search OF the room. and
stopped in the centre Of the floor in blank
dismay. A hurried search of the window
stills, securing OF the back yard,
and suspicious scrutiny of sleeping
cat on the unfathomabie calm Of an old
ash barrel gaveup no result In response
to anxious and grief-burdened cries for
"Polly," only the echo Of Mrs. Rogers
voice came floating back on the waywari
breeze. Night settled down softly and tue
cat slept peacefully, for once ndisturhei
by iieI &c cries of Here, Tge?" "Sic'en,,"
ana other expressions calculated to ali ne
feline mind with unspeakahle terror.
One by one the neighbors dropped In to
near the tory of the parrots disappear.
ahce, bur all were powerleSs to Sugge,. a
way out ct the trouble. At length, Ii ar.
ing Mrs. Rogers say, With suspicious huak.
mess, that she "wouldn't "a taken $50 for
that parrot" youn, man of ent.rprisins
turn Of mind rushed OFT and inserted tho
following emotional advertisement in u
morning newspaper;
xJO REWARD LOST A PARROT. RE.
P~V turn to Is Mscdougal st.
MB> ROGERS.
"Ihatll fetch 'em," said ,ne young man
to Mrs. Rogers on his retarn. "He won't
be long away now. When you lose any.
thing always advertise, and the things
sure to come back. "Why, know n mtn
'ho had u friend who advertised for lo.t
iog, and forty.sevcn dogs were brought m
his door next s-sy. Yes, Mrs. Rogers, thst'u
fetch i'm"
neither the lssrrot grew tire of his iso
lat on from home, or whether he feared to
see himself i'll cold type i'll a morning
newspaper, Is unknown, for while the All
was yet heavy with the young man, pro-
trStatiOns of confidence in the parrot, re.
turn, there Stream"d INTO the window the
me vt frightlul avaian ,.le ~ sound that had
been heard in tne II 5hborhood tor many
weeks.
ut Is the parco'v cried Mrs. r x .r-,
gleeiully, running to the window.
II Was the parrot. With premed tated
malice unequal 'd in natural history, the
~ titled pet had climbed up thu lace cur
tains, crawled through the open window
ami Secre'ed himself ON the oornicr of the
house. When tired of the Joke he cans in
again and made tbs household happy. All
lay yesterday the ec's.,es Of the ADVERTISE
ment drifted into II = house with the visit
ing nelghb1rs, and 10 groups of the curl.
GUS was the story of the parrots disap-
pearance told in varying degrees of truth
anu imagination. Late in the afternoon
me stream al callers had cees d. the par.
rot was swearing like a Eneal descendant
Of Captain Kidd, and the family was
happy