The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-01
PAUL A PARROT.
He is the Wonder of Salem Street and
 the Campgreund.

often applied to the horse and dog when they are more than usually intelligent, and the same may be said of the South African gray parrot.
 One of these on the campground this summer was the 14-years-old pet be- longing to Rollin. NJ. Bucklin and wife of the Green Mountain block, Salem street, Worcester. Paul, as he is named, and Johnnie the cat always accompany Mir. BuckIin and wife in their journeys from Worcester to their summer home on the campgrounds, and Paul has made many friends and admirers by his quaint and amazing utterances. Mrs. Bucklin bought the bird fourteen years ago, of MT. Smith, who had just re- turned to Worcester from South Africa and had taken the parrot out of the nest before it was feathered.
 Paul didn't attempt to talk for several months after Mrs. Bucklin got him and | the first word he was taught to say was whip -Door-will, and he never heard l the bird until on Sterling carnpground four years ago. The method his owner | took to teach him while lying on sofa 1 oiIL LiS d WillLGT Ol SlChllESSA WdS. would perch the bird on her arms and keep repeating the words she wanted him to initiate, until he had mastered them, and very often during the process he would fall asleep. When Paul saw Mrs. Bucklin preparing to take her nap he would stretch out his wing and leg as though he was sleepy too,
 Mrs. Bucklin, who has another parrot of the green variety, has been successful in rearing her pets. neither of them ever having been sickly and she has given valuable advice to other parrot owners. When she first bought him she hunted everywhere for treatises on the manage ment of parrots, and at last discovered | a book of much useful information on the care, food and the way to teach them to speak, by sending to England. This she studied and still refers to in the care of Paul.
 Mrs. Bucklin says that she has taught him good deal but many of his utter ances he has picked himself. She said: Paul has been brought up a good Christian bird. but sometimes he de- parts from his teachings" One day while a minister was calling at Leigh. ton lodge, and while the campmeeting congregation was singing hymns, Paul would start up singing Yankee Doo- dle." .4..-
 Mrs Bucklin says many mistakes are lmade in regard to the treatment of par. rots. It Is time-honored table that il I water is given a parrot to drink it i: Sure death. Mrs. Bucklin gives hers Fresh water every day as she would a canary or any other house bird, and k anxious to give few hints through 1.-The Telegram" that may be of use tt other owners of parrots. She says
 Not one person in a hundred knows that parrots have no crops, therefore they make the mistake of giving par rot sand. Its food is digested in tht stomach. I have fed it everything bu cheese and bitter almonds. Raw ant cooked meats, potatoes, green vegeta, bles. fruits. nuts and seeds and sun' flower seeds I have always in his dish Paul goes to the table with us anC perches on MT. Bucklin's arm As soor as he hears the bell at Notre Dame Church announce 12 o'clock, he raise. functions if his meat and potatoes art not ready. He is very fond of tea, bu he doesn't drink like other birds; h, takes the edge of the cup between hi bill and drinks it like human being.
 The gray parrot is susceptible tt drafts, and care must be taken in ou climate. Paul doesn't like to take { | hot ix,kx1 fI1 Ixs.kI !, f,,I ,,i wash him in luke.warm water, drying him afterward and keeping hin wrapped up until he is thoroughly dry to prevent a chill. I have been tolt that if a parrot is given meat he vii pluck his feathers, but I feed Paul witl meat every day, even giving him { piece of raw suet and fat meat. He ha! never plucked his feathers, and ha' never been sick in the fourteen years
 have had him.
 For breakfast he eats toast soaked in tea. and little doughnuts made fol him every morning. He takes a tea spoonful of tea in his claw and blows ol it to cool it. give him all kinds O nuts, as 1t seems to be natural for par rots. Vegetables, such as potatoes turniDs, onions. carrots, lettuce cab bages or apples and bananas sliced ur raw are good preventive or cure fol any skin disease"
 Paul is wonderful imitator and he k taken away from the open window il boys are using strong language on tho street. He repeats all the street calls of boys. initiates the policeman's whis' tie, dogs bark, a cats meow, tht squeak of the different doors in tn, house. and the noice of turning the steam into the radiators, the noise o MT. Bucklins desk chair revolving, the screech of electric cars as they turn tht corner of Park street and Salem square the chug-chug of @ steam roller, and tht noise of the air brakes on the trains as he heard them on his journey to Ster ling Junction.
 When the Burns underwear factory was being built in the vicinity of tn, Green mountain block, Paul used tC initiate the noise of the drilling ant blasting, his memory is so retentivt that he still makes the same sounds When MT. Bucklin and wife come tt their summer home by carriage, ant Paul is one of the party he keeps call ing whoa" to Dandy, the horse. Al these things he has learned by observa : tion.
 , When any person who doesn't knoV any better, calls him Polly, he gives , loud guffaw and essays to correct then I by spelling his name He counts up t