` You look just like a carp-fish with its mouth open . Say it again , please . ' ` Ah ! ah ! ah ! ' said her Daddy . ` Do n't be rude , my daughter . ' ` I 'm not meaning rude , really and truly , ' said Taffy . ` It 's part of my secret-surprise-think . Do say ah , Daddy , and keep your mouth open at the end , and lend me that tooth . I 'm going to draw a carp-fish 's mouth wide-open . ' ` 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 , XXXXX . '
Cave Daddy Mummy Taffy ah-noise back beaver-swamp carp-fish secret-surprise-think use