TWO BIPEDS MEET.
A GENTLEMAN was sauntering down the street- the other night when he was startled by a shrill whistle that sounded close beside him. He naturally stopped and looked around, but saw no one. He started on, but had proceeded only a few yards when the whistle, louder and shriller than before was repeated. Again he looked around, and again he saw no one. Then his heart misgave him, for the hour was almost midnight. Vague, unutterable fears clutched at his soul, until his sleek locks grew to resemble the quills of that notoriously fretful porcupine. But suddenly the mystery was solved. He chanced to glance overhead, when he perceived a parrot in a cage that dangled from a second-story window. The eyes of the feathered and featherless bipeds met, and the parrot quickly and appropriately remarked, ‘ What are you looking at, you fool ?’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 5, 30 January 1892, Page 120
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146TWO BIPEDS MEET. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 5, 30 January 1892, Page 120
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