A DISREPUTABLE COCKATOO.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 499, 23 January 1920, Page 4

A DISREPUTABLE COCKATOO.

The Sydney Sun advertises itself as follows:—There is a disreputable old cockatoo living in Balmain (Sydney), who indulges in the most atrocious language on the smallest provocation—or without any. Sometimes he gets restless at uucanny hours of the night, and brings everyone out of bed for half a mile round with raucous cries of "Murder! Police!" The other evening the lady of the bouse where this dissipated fowl resides presented her lord with twins. It was an anxious time. The doctor gave strict injunctions that the house should be kept as quiet as possible. Cocky's cage was kept carefully, and he was banished to the bathroom. Some time later when the doctor pronounced all danger over, someone took tho blanket off cocky's cage, and just then the thin wail of a newlyborn infant was wafted downstairs. Cocky put his hj( ad on one side and querulously demanded : "What the h—'s that?' 1 Then as two baby voices shrilled cut on the midnight air cocky appeased to ba enlightened, for he at once screamed out: "Sun ! Second edition ! Second edition!"