Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-08-08

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surprise I discovered that it was mere.
ly dummy, and was never intended
for lighting purposes.
1t took the form of a hollow tube
and concealed inside I discovered near.
ly the whole of the stolen property.
was greatly complimented by the
authorities, but they never knew that
my lucky discovery was merely caus'
ed by a parrots remark.
POOR POLLY.
Among the many methods adopted
in India to train parrots to speak the
swell" system is considered the most
efficacious. This consists in lowering
the parrot, after dusk, to within few
feet of the water in we'll, and then
repeating the necessary sentences OF
which the lesson consists. The walls
form sounding board. Bearing this
rule In mind, q friend Of mine pro-
ceeded to carry it out; and with this
object, lowered his bird through the
orifice of large we'll.
For quite an hour. he chanted the
phrases he wished the bird to learn.
Satisfied at last with the lesson, he
hauled. the cage up, only to discover
his bird lying, feet uppermost, at the
bottom. The poor chap had uncon-
ciously lowered the bird into the wa
ter, where it was speedily drowned.
My friend uses a new system of in
struction now.
"ANOTHER HURRICANE"
Among the many choice speeches
of a talking parrot, the following was
the favorite: "Oh, what lie"
This sentence was sometimes a tri-
fle annoying; but the climax was
reached one evening when the owner
had naval officer in to dine. All
went we'll till dinner time, when the
captain began to tell some humping
yarns (he was noted for stretching it.)
At the end of the first yarn the. par
rot sang out, much to his owners dis
comfort "Oh, what lie''
The captain was triflle upset; but
the owner made some excuse and
covered the birds cage with cloth.
Then the captain, getting in his old
way again, had just finished an extra
strong one, when a voice from under
the cover croaked: "Oh, what lie |"
This was too much for the poor cap
tain, who got up in rage, and seizing
the nearest thing handy, which hap
pened to be a glass of water, threw the
lot over the offending bird, saying to
himself: "Well, have cured you at
last, my friend %
The parrot shook himself and called
out : Gall hands on deck Another
hurricane !"
II KNOW I SHALL"
Mrs. l.. bought parrot which re-
fused to speak word while in her pos
session. So she called upon the shop
keeper from whom she had bought it
and inquired if he could tell her how to
induce the parrot to speak. .s;s "a.
The shopkeeper recommended Mrs.
L. to take two chairs, place them back
to back, about three feet apart, tie
piece of string from one to the other,
and hang the parrots cage in the CEN
ter, ieaviug plenty of room for the cage
to swing backward and forward.
When Mrs. L. arrived home she pro-
ceeded to carry out the experiment,
and giving the cage good impetus,
went out of the room.
Scarcely had she got out when she
heard the parrot shout at the top OIL
his voice:
"I know I shall I know I shall
know shall III"
Mrs. L., putting her head in at the
door, exclaimed:
"You know you will what, Polly ?"
"Fall off the perch and break my |
poor old neck" was the parrots reply.
"DAIsY BELL"
We had a parrot which could talk
ike an Old Baily lawyer, and the
boys on the ship taught him to sing
;he song of the "Bicycle Built For
Two"
Our ship was wrecked off the mouth
If the River Amazon, and everything
vas lost, excepting the crew-even the
parrot disappeared. We had to make
our way along the coast to the nearest
and awfully hard work it
vas.
One evening, after about IA days
we pitched our camp in a
small glade, and, not having much to
lat, tried to sleep. We were hardly
settled down when we heard tre-
nendous futtering, and, to our aston
shment, the glade rapidly filled with
parrots. Presently our old friend
and shipmate Bossy made his appear
,nce. He took up a position on the
stump of a tree, and, after greeting
is with knowing wink, he struck up
;he bicycle song. When he reached
The end of the first verse every parrot
n the glade took up the chorus, and
;he forest echoed with the "Bicycle
Built for Two" and so it went on
until the end of the song. We cap
;ured dozens of the birds, and when
we returned home we sold them, and