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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue XIX, 4 November 1899, Page 829

A gentleman hvho hail a parrot taught it to say “H’um,” in variety to its rather profance vocabulary. One day he was showing it off to a friend, but Poll, in a fit of sulkiness, would not say a word. The gentleman getting in a temper, caught it by the neck, and threw it in the fowl-yard, saying, “Say ‘H’unu,’ you beggar.” After a while, feeling ashamed of •himself, he went to look for the dead parrot, but on reaching the fowl-yard a rooster and six prize Minorca hens lay dead, while Poll had the seventh by the neck, saying, “Say ‘H’um, you beggar.”