“ROBERT” TO LIVE.
RETURNS EXPENSIVE MEAL
NOW GOT INDIGESTION
AN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE
United Press Asßn. by El. Tel. Copyright
(Australian Press Association.) / (Receive# Oct. .20, 11p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 20.
An official communique Has been received from the Home Life Exhibition to the effect that Robert the parrot, has returned the expensive meal to its owner fa diamond brooch he -snatched from a patron), and (has resumed hie normal diet;- He is suffering' badly* from indigestion, but this is more painless than the threatened , post mortem. H e was seemingly unconcerned yesterday that he was the most valuable parrot in thq world To-day he is lust a plain ordinary parrot. -Robert’was .christened The day he was born, because the doctor and nurse feared he would not live over-night. ’ ' V
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10723, 22 October 1928, Page 5
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