The morning call., 1894-10-17
IT'S BILLY TO-DAY.
Martin Carries Off the
Doubtful Parrot.
A TEMPORARY ADVANTAGE.
Mrs. DonneIIy's Heart Is Broken
for the Time.
THE BIRD SICKENED IN JAIL.
But Is Now Yelling With Delight
and Singing Ribald Songs, but
Does Not Swear.

Laura's name is Billy now, and if her
own words are TO be taken in evidence she
is delighted.
She lses no expression less enthusiastic
than Hip. hip, hurrah,'
When last seen she was hanging head
downward from the top of the cage. sing
ing "Tara-ra-ra-ra boom-de-ay," which.
indeed. should 90 as an argument on be-
half of Billy, for certainly no lady would
do that.
The mysterious story of the Donnelly-
Martin parrot, in other words, has con-
ceded another chapter. Bob Martin pnt
up $500 bond with the Sheriff yesterday
and once again carried the bird away in
triumph. Perhaps it was simply its JOY at
being released from its quondam prison
that caused the birds spirits TO rise rather
than anv intended disioyalty to Mrs. Don
pelly For Bob Martins care, or rather
that of his wife and her constant presence
and attention, is good deal better than
being imprisoned in the gloomy back room
of a Sher!ff's office. Think of being locked
up for five days, aye. nVe long. terrible
nights. breathing the clammy atmosphere
of the deadly cerlorarL
1t told upon the cheerful spirits of the
five more DAYS Mrs. Donnelly and Mrs.
Martin would have had more TO settle than
the privilege of paying the expenses Of
laying it TO rest
When it first entered the place it
seemed careless of the controversy-even
enjoyed the quarrel and would spend hours
in swinging head down and laughing 10 a
wild, hearty way with nothing in sight to
laugh at except it was its appreciation of
its situation.
When Mrs. DOnnely came the next
morning and said soft, sweet things and
wept little the bird expressed extraya-
CANT pleasure crving, Hip, hip. hurrah.
HIP hip. hurrah "
And the kindly Mrs. Donnelly looked
about a: the clerks, smiling triumphantlv
through her tears. Wasn't it sufficient?
What could be more convincing than this
instant recognition?
And Mrs. DOnnelly stayed there all the
morning. having her knitting along. glad
in the thought that she was comforting the
bird and for herself greatly comforted by
its com pany. And when the time came
for her to go she tried to comfort the bird
with promises that she would soon return,
saying, "Do not be d0wnhearted, Laura
dear"
And the bird reassured her with the
airy nothing, "Iara-ra-ra BOOM decay"
And we'll satisfied. Mrs. DonneIIy folded
her knitting and went away.
Martin opened the Sherlff's door with
anxious concern in her eye which instantly
changed as it fell upOn the green and red
OF her Billy the Kid swinging head down.
ward from the top OF the cage and greet
ing her with the jubilant cry of Hip, hip,
hurrah. Hlp hip, hurrah!"
And Mrs. Martin found her way back OF
the railing ana remained beside the bird
all the afternoon.
This became the daily routine through
the FIVE days Of the birds prisOnment
Each brought some special parrot deli
cacy, the last TO arrive Indignantly throw
Ing away and crlticlZing what the other
had brought Once they met, and but for
the presence Of roomfull of deputy Sher-
ifs the things they looked would doubt
less have been said Some few of them
were, anyhow, and it is much better to
draw a curtain over the things that would
then have had to be written.
But as the days ran on the bird drooped
and would sit all day and, despite the
kindest attentions, would say never a
word. 1t came to understand that it was
no joke. and, as between Mrs. Donnellv
and Martin. the bird, De she Laura Don
nelly or he he Billy the Kid. was getting
the worst of it. for she Tor he) was in jail
But Bob Martin yesterday filed the nee
essary bond and carried the bird away
and when Mrs. Donnelly appeared there
was no glad ''hurrah" to greet her.
L lie U6auIy Sn6II Oh the certiOraTl WAS
over everything. And her heart was
broken. The agony she is suffering this
day in the knowledge that her bird is re-
turning TO health and spirits under tho
ministratioDs of Mrs. Martin is not t. be
lightly spoken Of. Tha: is naturally in
volved in the fact that she hears in every
still hour Of the nighta shrill cry of Hip!
hip! huTrahr' that is meant to gladden. the
heart of her enemy; a cry that from a
man would tell of the limits Of perfdy. bnt
in her bird can be only thoughtlessness
and yet it is TO her the note Of dismay, de-
feat Gesolation.
That this is strange case of mistaken
Identity there can be little doubt. for bof n
women (and their husbands are very
much in earnest in their belief, or at least
the expressions of their belief, that the
bird is III cir own. They both have their
stories to tell. They both speak knowingly
of the birds peculiar ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Mrs. Dnnnelly says she rebearsed
them in Judge Conlan's court, and SO the
Martins learned them. Mrs DonnelIv
points to the birds good habits-the fact
1t does not swear--as proof shat II does
not belong In saloon. But each claims To
be able 10 repeat the history of the bird.
and ;hey Will have to do il when tho ca se
comes 10 trial, for the Martin advantage
is only temporary affair. Donnellv too k
the bird from Martin on a repIeyin and
Martin has got it back on bona. The
case has got to be decided upon its merits
by Justice. And bad Job he has before
him.