I hate helping to hang heavy , hot , hairy hides on them . If you drew the snake and egg , and I thought it meant dinner , and I came in from the wood and found that it meant I was to help Mummy hang the two hides on the drying-poles , what would I do ? ' ` You 'd be cross . So 'd Mummy . We must make a new picture for sho . We must draw a spotty snake that hisses sh-sh , and we 'll play that the plain snake only hisses ssss . ' ' I could n't be sure how to put in the spots , ' said Taffy . ` And p ` raps if you were in a hurry you might leave them out , and I 'd think it was so when it was sho , and then Mummy would catch me just the same . No ! I think we 'd better draw a picture of the horrid high drying-poles their very selves , and make quite sure . I 'll put them in just after the hissy-snake . Look ! ' And she drew this . -LRB- 10 . -RRB- ` P'raps that 's safest . It 's very like our drying-poles , anyhow , ' said her Daddy , laughing . ` Now I 'll make a new noise with a snake and drying-pole sound in it . I 'll say shi . That 's Tegumai for spear , Taffy . ' And he laughed .
` Do n't make fun of me , ' said XXXXX , as she thought of her picture-letter and the mud in the Stranger-man 's hair .
Mummy P'raps Taffy Tegumai drying-poles hissy-snake raps shi sho ssss