Lin says at that time he couldn't understand the meaning of the story, but recognized the animal characters in it. It was also his first time to learn the simple character for "big" (ta), "and I quickly read all the ta's in the whole book."
林良說，那時他年紀小，不懂書中蘊涵的深意，倒是因此認識各種動物的模樣，「還有，這是我除了『一』之外，第一次認得『大』這個字，我很快的就把整本書的『大』字都看完了。