-LRB- 19 . -RRB- ` Shu-ya-las ya-maru , ' said Taffy , reading it out sound by sound . ` That 's enough for to-day , ' said Tegumai . ` Besides , you 're getting tired , Taffy . Never mind , dear . We 'll finish it all to-morrow , and then we 'll be remembered for years and years after the biggest trees you can see are all chopped up for firewood . ' So they went home , and all that evening Tegumai sat on one side of the fire and Taffy on the other , drawing ya 's and yo 's and shu 's and shi 's in the smoke on the wall and giggling together till her Mummy said , ` Really , Tegumai , you 're worse than my Taffy . ' ` Please do n't mind , ' said Taffy . ` It 's only our secret-s ` prise , Mummy dear , and we 'll tell you all about it the very minute it 's done ; but please do n't ask me what it is now , or else I 'll have to tell . ' So her Mummy most carefully did n't ; and bright and early next morning Tegumai went down to the river to think about new sound pictures , and when Taffy got up she saw Ya-las -LRB- water is ending or running out -RRB- chalked on the side of the big stone water-tank , outside the Cave . ` Um , ' said Taffy . ` These picture-sounds are rather a bother ! Daddy 's just as good as come here himself and told me to get more water for Mummy to cook with . ' She went to the spring at the back of the house and filled the tank from a bark bucket , and then she ran down to the river and pulled her Daddy 's left ear -- the one that belonged to her to pull when she was good . ` Now come along and we 'll draw all the left-over sound-pictures , ' said her Daddy , and they had a most inciting day of it , and a beautiful lunch in the middle , and two games of romps . When they came to T , Taffy said that as her name , and her Daddy 's , and her Mummy 's all began with that sound , they should draw a sort of family group of themselves holding hands . That was all very well to draw once or twice ; but when it came to drawing it six or seven times , Taffy and Tegumai drew it scratchier and scratchier , till at last the T-sound was only a thin long Tegumai with his arms out to hold Taffy and Teshumai . You can see from these three pictures partly how it happened . -LRB- 20 , 21 , 22 . -RRB- Many of the other pictures were much too beautiful to begin with , especially before lunch , but as they were drawn over and over again on birch-bark , they became plainer and easier , till at last even Tegumai said he could find no fault with them .
They turned the hissy-snake the other way round for the Z-sound , to show it was hissing backwards in a soft and gentle way -LRB- 23 -RRB- ; and they just made a twiddle for E , because it came into the pictures so often -LRB- 24 -RRB- ; and they drew pictures of the sacred Beaver of the Tegumais for the B-sound -LRB- 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 -RRB- ; and because it was a nasty , nosy noise , they just drew noses for the N-sound , till they were tired -LRB- 29 -RRB- ; and they drew a picture of the big lake-pike 's mouth for the greedy Ga-sound -LRB- 30 -RRB- ; and they drew the pike 's mouth again with a spear behind it for the scratchy , hurty Ka-sound -LRB- 31 -RRB- ; and they drew pictures of a little bit of the winding Wagai river for the nice windy-windy Wa-sound -LRB- 32 , 33 -RRB- ; and so on and so forth and so following till they had done and drawn all the XXXXX that they wanted , and there was the Alphabet , all complete .
Mummy T-sound Taffy Tegumai fire left picture-sounds romps shi sound-pictures