I drawded them to show him the way through the swamp ; and I drawded Mummy at the mouth of the Cave looking pleased because he is a nice Stranger-man , and I think you are just the stupidest people in the world , ' said Taffy . ` He is a very nice man . Why have you filled his hair with mud ? Wash him ! ' Nobody said anything at all for a longtime , till the Head Chief laughed ; then the Stranger-man -LRB- who was at least a Tewara -RRB- laughed ; then Tegumai laughed till he fell down flat on the bank ; then all the Tribe laughed more and worse and louder . The only people who did not laugh were Teshumai Tewindrow and all the Neolithic ladies . They were very polite to all their husbands , and said ` Idiot ! ' ever so often . Then the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai cried and said and sang , ' O Small-person-with-out-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked , you 've hit upon a great invention ! ' ' I did n't intend to ; I only wanted Daddy 's black-handled spear , ' said Taffy . ` Never mind . It is a great invention , and some day men will call it writing . At present it is only pictures , and , as we have seen to-day , pictures are not always properly understood . But a time will come , O Babe of Tegumai , when we shall make letters -- all twenty-six of 'em , -- and when we shall be able to read as well as to write , and then we shall always say exactly what we mean without any mistakes . Let the Neolithic ladies wash the mud out of the stranger 's hair . ' ' I shall be glad of that , ' said Taffy , ` because , after all , though you 've brought every single other spear in the Tribe of Tegumai , you 've forgotten my Daddy 's black-handled spear . ' Then the Head Chief cried and said and sang , ` Taffy dear , the next time you write a picture-letter , you 'd better send a man who can talk our language with it , to explain what it means . I do n't mind it myself , because I am a Head Chief , but it 's very bad for the rest of the Tribe of Tegumai , and , as you can see , it surprises the stranger . ' Then they adopted the Stranger-man -LRB- a genuine Tewara of Tewar -RRB- into the Tribe of Tegumai , because he was a gentleman and did not make a fuss about the mud that the Neolithic ladies had put into his hair . But from that day to this -LRB- and I suppose it is all Taffy 's fault -RRB- , very few little girls have ever liked learning to read or write .
Most of them prefer to draw pictures and play about with their Daddies -- just like XXXXX .
Chief Daddy Mummy Neolithic Taffy Tegumai Tewar Tewara Tewindrow day