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Included in the Audubon exhibit are original sketches by the naturalist-artist of the cat-bird, screech, owl the Carolina parrot (now extinct), belted kingfisher, white-throated sparrow, and chuck-will's widow. Also shown are four volumes of the huge "Birds of America" published in the years 1827 to 1838. There are original letters written by Audubon, one of them carrying his personal seal, marked by a wild turkey and the motto "America My Country...
...CASE OF THE PERJURED PARROT-Erle Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). The "testimony" of a profane pet parrot figures in the coroner's hearing on the murder of an eccentric millionaire. Standard Perry Mason, slightly frayed at the edges...
...late Jackson Barnett was a simple-minded Creek who got 160 acres in Eastern Oklahoma from the Government in Benjamin Harrison's time and lived to see his land produce 12,000 bbls. of oil a day. So dim-witted that he used to parrot back "Hello. Jack" when he was addressed, Indian Barnett had a guardian to invest his $60,000 monthly income. He lived on $50 a month until Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow, entered his life, began fighting with the Government over his money...
Rumsey's boat: Gifford, Stillman, Cutler, Parrot, Streeter, Koeniger, Gilkey, Larner...
Second Crew--Stroke, Parrot; 7, Gifford; 6, Swaim; 5, Crocker; 4, Geist; 3, Nants; 2, Koenigher; bow, Elliot; cox, Larner...