The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-01-25
A PARROT PROVES HIS WORTH
with HI. Tongue He scares q Second.
story Burglar Away from Giris
Boarding School.


necticut, is a girls boarding school
which includes a number of small cot
tages used by the teachers and older
pupils as dormitories. In one of these
is kept a parrot, the mascot and pri-
vate property of the senior class, says
the New York Sun.
Polly is very old bird. In fact he
is almost as old as the seminary itself,
and many are the classes, long since
graduated, whose cheer Polly has
learned and can recite to this very day.
But cheers are not his only accom-
plishment, for every class has taught
him some phrase or other, so that IN
all these wears he has amassed large
vocabulary, composed mostly OF such
words as the popular name for caout-
chouc, and other schoolgirl slang.
The entire school assemblies for
meals in the main building. This GUS
tom leaves the smaller cottages prac-
| tfcally unguarded during mealtime.
| As nothing was ever stolen, the girls
| gradually became more and more lay
in locking the doors and windows.
One day lately, when the boarderf
were all enjoying their midday meal,
a violent screening and yelling was
| heard from the nearest cottage, that
in which the parrot was kept. One OF
the girls suggested that stray cat
had got into the house and was the
cause of the cutlery.
At this one of the teachers volun-
teered to investigate. In few mo.
ments she returned, breathless and
excited, announcing that the cottage
, had been entered by burglars, and was
at that very moment being robbed.
For an instant panic reigned among
the pupils, but it was Immediately
, uuelled by the principal. She directed
one of the teachers to telephone fol
the police, while she went over to thu
cottage with James, the gardener.
On arriving at the scene they foun'
the building had indeed been entered
:. Almost all the rooms showed signs o
a robber. The bureau drawers ha
I been rified and things strewn about.
t In the next to the last room on tn
S second floor was found large bag
e packed with all sorts of valuabletrir
kets. and other articles were lyin
J. about the floor, as if the intruder
y whoever he was, had beat hasty RI
d treat. The cause of this precipitat
fight was soon made manifest by tn
It sudden outcry of the parrot in tn
Is next room.
l. sect out of here! Get out of here!
screamed the bird.
IN Polly was discovered in an excee
,e ingly ruffled state, and his loud "G'
st out of herel" had evidently done IL
I'd work
TO Outside the building was 1add
" leaning against one of the back wi
he dows. The burglar had entered al
st gone through all the rooms, TAXI
re whatever he could from each one, t
ct the next to the last was reached.
or At this point, it is supposed, Pol
nj heard the strange footsteps, for
Mt was well acquainted with the step
on every one who lived in the buildir
,lv and cried out in alarm, and by sol
IN happy chance happened to strike up
the phrase ''Get out of here!"
n. The birds voice was very hum'
~ and even the inmates of the Gotta
III had often mistaken it for that OF
Ish human being. Therefore it is not
he be wondered at that burglar had be
- misled by the voice and fled.
Oh On summing up the loss it was fou
that only few dollars worth OF TT
x kets were missing, and that the b
had been the means of preventing
ran an theft of perhaps many hundreds
ca dollars worth of jewelry.