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Whitehaven Gazette - Thurs. Mar. 25, 1897
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A PARROT STORY

    A gentleman not many miles form Whitehaven,
went to London on a visit.  One day while walk-
ing down the street he spied a parrot which was
for sale, and inquiring if it could talk, he was
told it was a very good one.  So he purchased it
and the cage, and brought it home with him, put
it on the kitchen table and commenced talking to
it and calling it pretty Poll.  It gave him no
answer, and he got very angry, and shaking his
fist at said: "Call me uncle or I'll break your
neck."  But it would not speak, so he threw it in
with the hens all night.  When he went in the
morning to see what Polly was doing, it had
killed ninteen chickens and was on the head of
the twentieth, calling out "Call me uncle or I'll
break your neck."

                        Catherine LIGHTFOOT,
                                         Seascale
 
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