A Discriminating Parrot. —Another, friend of mine possesses a parrot who always discriminates between the sexes and condition of life of its master's visitors. If a gentleman comes welldressed, he is invariably saluted witb, <; What a get up—what a swell you are!" If an old lady, " Oh, what a fright —what a pair of nut-crackers !" If a young lady, he begins to kiss and fondle, and says, in a most soothing tone, "Is she not nice? — is she not nice?" But when a clergyman appears, he instantly, in tho gravest and most solemn tones, such as forbid -at; the moment any feeling of levity, addresses him with the words, "Let us pray; let us ■-pray,"..with a pause between the sentences.—-Leisure Hour, f i*iti- (. ?j; ; *•' '* The Paris Figaro says:—" Two friends met the otberJ day > in the street. ' What a shocking bad hat you, weiar,' exclaimed one of them. * My"dear jfriehd, I; wear it only Vbe(»usevT Jove ?my£ own liberty.' 'But what 6n-jiearth^ has*your liberty to do:witfrthehat?'; 'Oh, a great .deal.* rMyJ wife has sworn she wouldneyer jjraik-i out with me as long aii I should wear ;''such:"aJiftt.^/'"VJi-'\;';' ; 'f,f'r:ff'y''[','
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 159, 9 July 1869, Page 2
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