HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE

THE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best Beloved) made that little mistake about her Daddys spear and the Stranger-man and the picture-letter and all, she went carp-fishing again with her Daddy. Her Mummy wanted her to stay at home and help hang up hides to dry on the big drying-poles outside their hic Cave, but Taffy slipped away down to her Daddy quite early, and they fished. Presently she began to giggle, and her Daddy said, Dont be silly, child.

But wasnt it ing! said Taffy. Dont you remember how the Head Chief puffed out his cheeks, and how funny the ranger-man looked with the mud in his hair?

Well do I, said Tegumai. I had to pay two deerskins--soft ones with frio the Stranger-man for the things we did to him.

We didnt do anything, said Taffy. It was Mummy and the other hic ladies--and the mud.

We wont talk about that, said her Daddy, Lets have lunch.

Taffy took a marrow-bone and sat mousy-quiet for ten whole minutes,……(内容加载失败!)

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