Hum One
p. 87 · Read in the full issue
He’s A Hum One
Last year 137,068 bottles of rum were drunk in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.
Who sinks all this drink?
Well, at least, a fair share is imbibed by Kuaki, a small green parrot owned by Ted Siggs, of Lae.
Every evening at sundown Kuaki shares Ted’s verandah— and spirits—from an egg cup.
“Have a rum, bosun!” will bring Kuaki running at the double to his favourite perch on the verandah rail.
His tot downed, Kuaki chews a few peanuts (salted for prefer ence) spits out the shells, mutters a few rude words under his breath —then falls off to sleep—that’s if he doesn’t fall off the rail first.
Nancy Curtis.