` I 'll draw 'em all in a string like fish . ' ` Had n't we better put a little bit of stick or something between each word , so 's they wo n't rub up against each other and jostle , same as if they were carps ? ' ` Oh , I 'll leave a space for that , ' said her Daddy . And very incitedly he drew them all without stopping , on a big new bit of birch-bark . -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 , XXXXX 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 .
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