THE CELLS & THE PARROT.
BATTLESHIP EPIsbDE.
. ' "Those, miss, arc the cells where they keep the prisoners," said the patient sruniior who wns doing the rounds of 11.Jf.f5. New Zealand yesterday with two young ladies. "Oh!" exclaimed one of the young ladies, "I should like to see one—do lat 1110 look." Tho patient gunner slid hack the flap of tho peep-hole. Tlve young lady peeped in, and yaw—a white cockatoo, jjacefully J cracking nuts in his case! "Prisoners are not 011 show, miss," explained the patient gunner. "Why is tho parrot in that cell, then?" demanded the fair inquisitor. "For swearin', miss," replied tho patient gunner, with the gravity of an undertaker. "Keally!", cxclaimed the young lady, with a shocked express on. "Haw! Haw! Haw!"—her malo companion exploded, and then, recognising the gravity of his indiscretion, Mew his noso vigorously. The patient gunner his gravity, whilo the young lady, sweeping the group with a glanco of scorn, marched oft', the party humbly following in her train.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1732, 24 April 1913, Page 5
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165THE CELLS & THE PARROT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1732, 24 April 1913, Page 5
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