` What for ? ' said her Daddy . ` Do n't you see ? ' said Taffy , scratching away on the bark . ` That will be our little secret s ` prise . When I draw a carp-fish with his mouth open in the smoke at the back of our Cave -- if Mummy does n't mind -- it will remind you of that ah-noise . Then we can play that it was me jumped out of the dark and s ` prised you with that noise -- same as I did in the beaver-swamp last winter . ' ` Really ? ' said her Daddy , in the voice that grown-ups use when they are truly attending . ` Go on , Taffy . ' ` Oh bother ! ' she said . ' I ca n't draw all of a carp-fish , but I can draw something that means a carp-fish 's mouth . Do n't you know how they stand on their heads rooting in the mud ? Well , here 's a pretence carp-fish -LRB- we can play that the rest of him is drawn -RRB- . Here 's just his mouth , and that means ah . ' And she drew this . -LRB- 1 . -RRB- ` That 's not bad , ' said Tegumai , and scratched on his own piece of bark for himself ; but you 've forgotten the feeler that hangs across his mouth . ' ` But I ca n't draw , Daddy . '
` You need n't draw anything of him except just the opening of his mouth and the XXXXX across .
Mummy Taffy Tegumai ah-noise beaver-swamp carp-fish feeler heads pretence winter