PRETTY POLLY.
"Poll, eay 'Uncle,'" eaid a gentleman • to his parrot one day, on exhibiting his i bird to a of friends. ' It was his proud boast that the parrot would say anything he was told. But the i bird refused. i " Poll, say Uncle '." shouted bis owner, l getting enraged. But etill the bird i was eilent. At laßt the man be- ; came so enraged he seized the \ parrot fiorcely by the head, pulled his , neck nearly out, and flung him into an s outhouse, saying : "Say uncle, you devil, I say uncle !" Later in the day, feeling a little remorse for having treated his pat so [ harshly, he went to see how he fared, and i if he had really killed him outright. Now, • he had pitched the poor bird into an outi ) house containing twelve prize Dorking [ hens. Judge of his surprise then when, on i opening the door, he found eleven Dork- , ings dead on the floor and the parrot juat t wringing the neok of the twelfth one, and . loudly exclaiming, " Say uncle, you devil, . eaj uncle!"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4907, 24 March 1894, Page 3
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182PRETTY POLLY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 4907, 24 March 1894, Page 3
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