Ladies and Gentlemen, I take great pleasure in presenting to you the
Wa-hoo-wa Bird. The only bird of its kind in captivity today. This
strange bird comes from the far off shores of the Isle of Borneo where
it rears its young among the crannies and crags of the mountainous
coastline. Now the particular strange thing about this bird is that it
only mates once every one hundred years, and after having mated, it
crawls, half drags, half flies, until it gets itself to the topmost
pinnacle of the long, tall, lofty rubber tree. Casting its eyes to the
heavens it cries in tones of ecstacy “Wa-hoo-wa,” which, translated in
the language of the natives, means “My Gawsch, Mamma, ain’t love grand!”
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