TO MAKE YOU SMILE.
Engaged Young Lady (at birdstore): • Has this parrot any accomplishments ?' Proprietor : * He can speak a little, but he’s too old to learn anything new.’ Engaged Young Lady (hesitatingly): Would he imitate any sounds he might bear, snch as a sneeze or a cough, or anything of that kind?’ Proprietor: ‘No. The girls were trying the other day to teach him to imitate the sound of a kiss, bnt he wouldn’t do it’ Engaged Young Lady : * I’ll take him.*
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue VI, 9 February 1895, Page 144
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82TO MAKE YOU SMILE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue VI, 9 February 1895, Page 144
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