Wanted–A professor to come twice a week to the house of a noble family in order to reform the pronunciation of a parrot.
— Advertisement, Paris Figaro, quoted in William Shepard Walsh, Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities, 1892
Wanted–A professor to come twice a week to the house of a noble family in order to reform the pronunciation of a parrot.
— Advertisement, Paris Figaro, quoted in William Shepard Walsh, Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities, 1892