Sir John Martin Harvey is telling this parrot story., During his visit to Edinburgh last week, some oceapants of 'a fist opposite, the Lyceum Theatre bought a parrot and placed it in the window. The trade unionists held so many of their boycott meetings just outside that all the bird now says is "Mar-trin Har-r-vey," having heard the name shouted so much in broad -Seots.
'The parrot has been sold to an admirer of the famous. actor for' £5.
And, perhaps, a pinch of salt.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.