Rubes by Leigh Rubin for October 30, 2022

But we still don’t know what the chicken said…

He ain’t no stool pigeon but he a parrot.

Alternate second panel: The Parrot says, “Say pal, if I tell you a secret, do you promise not to repeat it?”

The jungle gossip

Alternate punch line: The parrot repeats what the monkey said in the first panel.

Silence is golden!

“Not repeat it? Are you bananas?”

“Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.” — Ben Franklin.