A CROWD’S CURIOSITY

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 121, 16 February 1926, Page 6

A CROWD’S CURIOSITY

ALL OVER A PARROT ON A PARAPET 5

It was only a little pink P arr °t> strolling daintily along the parapet o a building, but that curiosity in small things which is such a characteristic of the psychology of a crowd, led to three or four hundred people craning their necks, watching the bird, and the antics of a man bent on restoring it to captivity. _ Very gingerlv he emerged from a window, and crept along the parapet toward the parrot, but ever as he a PP r °“"?d the bird would trot away At length he got within a yard of the bird, ami “prettv-cockying” for all he was worth, extended an inviting finger, but as he moved forward the bird, having reached the end of the parapet, flew to one of the over-head tramway . wires. Everyone expected to see it immediately electrocuted, but nothing of the kind occurred. “Cocky” rather liked its new perch, which it did not leave until the rush of a trolly-head beneath its feet made it fly to an adjacent window ledge. Here another man clambered along the veranda, and ttie parrot, with a “what’s-thc-use” expression, gave itself into custody.