DANCING PARROT
VAUDEVILLE IN COURT A white-feathered, red-faced parrot in a large cage was on show in the Central Summons Court. Sydney, recently, when one woman sued another for the illegal detention of the bird. Mrs. Elizabeth Brown said that cn July 9 she visited Mrs. Allen's shop in George Street. Mrs. Allen claimed the bird as her own. and took possession of him. “Tommy, kiss mother!’’ she said, according to Mrs. Brown, but the bird tried to bito her mouth. Mrs. Brown left the box and knelt affectionately before the cage. “Hello, cocko! Hello, cocko!” she said to the bird. Cocko replied sympathetically, and then said, “Hello." “Can you make him dance?” asked her counsel. "Oh, yes,” Mrs. Brown replied. She spoke to him again, tickled him under the chin, and the parrot danced a jig, to the delight of the magistrate and the court. Mr. Fletcher ordered the defendant to deliver the bird to Mrs. Brown.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 19
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