Tata loved to sleep off his drunkenness underneath the ackee tree at the back
of the yard, where he lived. He had a special piece of sponge shaped like a
single bed mattress that he would lay on. His sister, Tun, always told him not
to do that, as it was not good to sleep outside in case green lizards fell from
the tree on top of him. Tata was not good at taking advice from others
because he knew it all. After a continuous warning, Tun gave up trying to
convince him to stop doing so.

It was a moonshine night when as usual, Tata had drunk white rum with his
friend Miss Sally and then went to sleep under the ackee tree. Everyone in the
house had gone to their beds and forgot to wake him up so that he too could
go home to bed. It was about 1am in the morning when a continuous banging
on the kitchen door awoke everyone. Tun’s husband, Brim, went to answer the
door, and when he inquired who it was and opened it, Tata stood there with a
swollen head and was unable to talk for a while. They gave him some water to
drink, and he slowly sipped it.