and the girl-daughter picked him up on the palm of her little brown hand, and sat him in the bottom of the canoe and gave him her scissors, and he waved them in his little arms, and opened them and shut them and snapped them, and said, ‘i can eat nuts. i can crack shells. i can dig holes. i can climb trees. i can breathe in the dry air, and i can find a safe pusat tasek under every stone. i did not know i was so important.