Chapter 7 how to write the first letter

how to write the first letter Long, long ago, there lived a Neolithic man.He's not a Jut or an Anglo, or a Dravidian, if only he were, my dear, don't care why.He was a primitive man, lived in caves, wore little clothes, could neither write nor read, nor did he want to be, except when he was hungry.His name was Tegumai Bosule, which means "The Man Who Doesn't Put His Legs Out Immediately," but we, oh dear, call him Tegumai for short.His wife's name was Tesumait Wendlaw, which means "lady who asks many questions," but we, oh beloved, call her Tesumai for short, and her youngest daughter's name is Tafi Maimetalu Mai, which means, "the unruly little one who deserves to be beaten," but I call her Taffy, and she is Tegu Maibosulai's favorite, and the apple of her mother's eye, and she is more right than beaten She is good.They are all very happy.As soon as Taffy was running around she hung around with Papa Tegumai.Sometimes they don't want to go back to their burrow until they are hungry.Then Tesumet Windlaw would say, "Where the hell are you two going, why are you so dirty? My Tegumai, you are not as good as Taffy."

Now listen carefully! One day Tegu Maibosulai came across the beaver swamp to the Vague River to spear carp.Taffy followed suit.Tegumai's spear was made of wood with a shark's tooth on the head but before he caught any fish his spear hit the bottom of the river too hard and broke the spear.They were many miles away from home (of course they liked lunch in their packets), and Tegumai had forgotten his other spears. "There's a big tank of fish here!" Tegumai said. "It will take half a day to fix the spear." "There's a big black spear at home," said Taffy, "let me run back to the hole and ask Mummy to give it to me."

"It's too far for your fat legs," Tegumai said, "and, besides, you might fall into the beaver swamp and drown. We have to do this tricky job." He sat down and pulled out a A small leather repair kit, full of reindeer tendon, leather strips, beeswax, and resin, started to repair the spear. Taffy also sat down.She put her feet in the water, held her chin, and thought hard.Then he said, "Daddy, I said it's extremely annoying that you and I can't write, isn't it? If we could we could send a message for a new spear." "Tafi," Tegumai said, "how many times have I told you not to use slang? 'Extremely' is not a good word, but like you said, it would be handy if we could write at home."

At this moment, a stranger came along the river, a man from a distant Tewara tribe, who did not understand Tegumai's language at all, and stood by the river, smiling at Taffy, because he There is also a little daughter at home.Tegumai pulled a roll of deer tendon from his repair kit and began to repair the spear. "Come here," said Taffy, "do you know where my mother is?" said the stranger, "Yes!" You know, he's from Tewara. "Stupid!" said Taffy, stamping her foot because she saw a school of big carp swimming up, but her Daddy couldn't use a spear.

"Don't disturb your lord," Tegumai said, too busy repairing his spear to turn around. "I didn't bother him," Taffy said. "I just wanted him to do what I wanted, but he didn't understand." "Leave me alone," Tegumai said, continuing to pull the tendon with his mouth on the loose end.The stranger—he was a real Tewara—sat in the grass, and Taffy showed him what her daddy did, and the stranger thought the kid was doing well.She stomped at me and made faces.She must be the daughter of the noble chief who was too noble to look at me. ’ He smiled more kindly than before.

"Now," said Taffey, "I want you to go to my mother's, because your feet are much longer than mine, and you won't fall into the beaver swamp, and ask for Daddy's other spear—that hangs on the Spears with black handles on our hearth." The stranger (he was a Tewara) thought, "This is a very, very powerful kid. She waved at me and yelled, but I couldn't understand what she was saying. But if I did what she asked, I'd be very happy." Afraid the haughty chief—the man with his back to the visitor—would be angry." He stood up, peeled off a chunk of bark from the birch branch, twisted it, and handed it to Taffy.He did that, dear, to show that his heart was as white as birch bark and meant no harm, but Taffy couldn't understand him.

"Oh," she said, "now I know! You want my mommy's address? Of course, I can't write, but I can draw, if you have something sharp to draw. Put your necklace on Borrow your shark tooth." The stranger (he was a Tewara) said nothing, so Taffy raised her little hand and pulled from his neck the beautiful necklace of beads, seeds and shark teeth. The stranger (he was a Tewara) thought, "This is a very, very, very powerful kid. The shark tooth on the necklace is a magical shark tooth, and it is said that if anyone touches it without my permission, they It would soon swell and burst, but this child didn't swell and burst. The noble chief—a man who was concentrating on his affairs—did not look at me, as if he wasn't worried that she would swell and burst. It seems that I Better be more polite."

"I'll draw some pretty pictures for you! You've seen my shoulders, don't shake them. First I'm going to draw Daddy Fishing. Not like him, but my mommy will know because I drew A broken spear. Well, now I'm going to draw the spear he wanted, the black-handled spear. It seems to have poked Daddy's back, but the skin isn't big enough because the shark teeth are gone. That's I want the spear you took, and I can draw myself not afraid of you, and my hair doesn't stand up like I did, but it's easier to draw that way. Now I'm going to draw you, and I think you are very Okay, but I can't draw you very well, so don't feel wronged, don't you feel wronged?"

The stranger (he was a Tewara) laughed and thought, "There must be a big fight somewhere, this particular kid got my magic shark tooth without blowing up and making me call all The chieftain of the tribe came to his aid. He is a noble chief, otherwise he should have noticed me. "Look," Taffy said, drawing fiercely and sloppily, "Now I'm going to draw you, and I've put the spear your daddy wanted in your hand, just to remind you to take it. Now I'm going to show you how to find my mommy's address. You walk until you come to two trees (those are trees) and then you climb over a hill (that's a hill) and you enter a beaver swamp full of beavers, I didn't put all the beavers in because

Can't draw beavers but I drew their heads and you walk through the swamp that's all you can see.Don't get stuck!Our cave is just on the other side of the beaver swamp.It is not as high as those mountains, and I can't draw it too small.That's my mommy she's outside.She's beautiful, the prettiest mommy, and she'd be mad if I painted her so plain.But she will be happy because I can draw.In case you forget, I'll draw the spear my daddy wanted on the entrance of the cave.The spear is in the hole, you can take this picture to my mommy and she will give you the spear.I asked her to put her hand up because I knew she would be happy to see you.It's beautiful, isn't it?Do you understand, or I'll explain it to you again? "

The stranger (he was a Tewara) looked at the picture, nodded vigorously, and said to himself, "If I call this noble chief's tribe to help him, enemies with spears coming from every direction will kill His. I understand why the noble chief pretended not to look at me! He was afraid that his enemies hidden in the jungle would see him, so he turned his back on me and let the clever boy draw that terrible picture to tell me his Difficulty. I have to leave quickly and ask his tribe for help." He didn't ask Tafi which way to go, and ran into the jungle like the wind, holding the birch bark in his hand.Taffy sat down and breathed a sigh of relief. This is what Taffy painted for him! What have you been doing, Taffy?Tegumai said as he trimmed the spear, moving it carefully back and forth. "Dear Daddy, I've made my own way," said Taffy, "and if you don't ask me questions, you'll soon understand and you'll be surprised. You can't imagine how surprised you'll be, Daddy! You It will definitely surprise you." "Good," Tegumai said, continuing to fish. Stranger—didn't you know he was a Tewara? ——With the painting in hand, after running a few miles, I happened to find Tesumet Windlaw outside the cave door chatting with several women of the New Time Age who had prepared a simple lunch.Tafi resembled Tesumai, especially the upper part of the face, and the eyes, so the stranger—a very simple Tewara—smiled politely and handed Tesumai the birch bark.He was running so fast that he was panting all the time, and his feet were scratched by thorns, but he was still very polite. Tesumai yelled at the sight of the painting, yelling at strangers.Another New Age woman knocked him down immediately, sitting on top of him in a row of six, Tesumai pulling at his hair. "The noses on the faces of strangers speak for themselves," she said. "It wasn't enough that many spears held Tegumai so that Taffy's hair stood on end. Show me the dreadful picture. Look!" He showed the picture to the silent woman sitting on top of the stranger, "Tegumai's weapon is also broken, one stabbed into his back, and A man with a spear in his hand was about to throw a spear, another was throwing a spear from the hole, and a whole bunch of people (they were actually beavers from Taffy, but they looked like people) came out from behind Tegumai, too. Terrible!" "Shocking!" said the women, as they smeared strangers' hair with mud (which he also wondered about), and they beat the tribal drums, and they beat the tribal drums, calling the tribal negus, Wuen and Akhods, and sorcerers, witch-doctors, spell-men, monks, etc., before they cut off the stranger's head, asked him to lead them to the river, and point out that he hid poor Taffy in What's wrong. By this time the stranger (despite being a Tewara) was really annoyed, they made his hair stiff with mud.They made him roll around on protruding pebbles, and six people sat on him in a row, and they beat him until he couldn't breathe.Although he didn't understand their language, he was almost sure that these women's words to him were not like women's words.However, he said nothing until all the Tegumai tribe had arrived, and then he led them back to the Wagai River where they found Taffy making daisy garlands and Tegumai carefully using The repaired spear pierced the small carp. "Oh, you're so fast!" said Taffy, "Why did you bring so many people? Daddy dear, that's a surprise, Daddy, are you surprised?" "Surprised," said Tegumai, "but to ruin the day's good fishing, why did the whole amiable, kind, kind, clean, quiet tribe come, Taffy?" They all came, first by Tesumet Windlaw and the women of the new age, clutching the mud-covered stranger (albeit a Tewara).Followed by chief, deputy chief, assistant deputies (they are all fully armed).Behind them stood in order of rank, from the masters of the four major caves (each for a season), who owned a private reindeer and two salmon, to feudal serfs with prominent jaws, who could use half a fish on winter nights. Bearskin, seven feet away from the fire, and the dependent serfs have the right to inherit the bones. (Pretty word, dear, isn't it?) There they shouted with jubilation, scaring away the fish twenty miles away, and Tegumai thanked them with a fluent speech. Tesumet Wendlaw ran down and kissed and hugged Taffy excitedly, but the chief of the Tegumai tribe grabbed the knotted feathers on Tegumai's head and shook him vigorously. "Speak! Say! Say!" the people of Tegumai's tribe all muttered loudly. "Thank God, I'm still alive," Tegumai said. "Take off my crest, and don't disturb all the people who fell because the carp spear is broken. You are a troublesome man." "I suppose you didn't bring Daddy the black spear," said Taffy, "what did you do to the kind stranger?" "They were punching left and right until the stranger's eyes swelled and he could only point at Taffy, breathlessly. "Which villain speared you, my dear?" said Tsumet Windlaw. "No one," said Tegumai, "the only visitor this morning was the poor fellow who smothered you all. Are you all right, are you sick, oh tribe of Tegumai?" "He comes with dreadful pictures," said the Chief,--"one showing you covered with spears." "Oh, I'd better explain that painting," Taffey said, but she didn't find it so easy. "You!" The people of Tegumai's tribe all said in unison. "Little--guy--didn't--polite--look--should--hit! You?" "Dear Taffey, I'm afraid we're in trouble," said her daddy, putting his arms around her so she didn't mind. "Speak! Speak! Speak!" said Tegumai's tribal chief, staring with one foot. "I thought the stranger was going to get Daddy's spear, so I drew this picture," Taffey said. "There are not many spears here, there is only one spear. I drew it three times before I was sure. It looks like a thorn. I can't help it with the head of Daddy's - there's no room on the birch bark, those mums called the bad guys are beavers. I drew them for him to walk through the swamp, and I drew the mums at the mouth of the hole to look happy Because he is a kind stranger. I think you are the most stupid person in the world." Taffy said, "He is very nice, why do you stick his hair in mud? Help him wash it off!" No one said a word for a long time, then the chief laughed, and then the stranger (he was at least a Tewara) laughed too, and Tegumai collapsed on the riverbank laughing, and all the tribe laughed more and more. Powerful, laugh louder and louder.Only Tsumat Windlaw and the Women of the New Time were not laughing.They are polite to their husbands and often say "Idiot!" Tegumai's tribal chiefs yelled and yelled and sang, "Oh, little--guy--no--courtesy-should-should-hit, you stumble upon a great invention!" "I don't think so, I just want Daddy's black-handled spear." Taffy said. "Never mind great invention, one day people will call it a work. Now it's just a picture, we've seen today that pictures don't always get right, but the time will come, oh Tegumai baby, when we invent the alphabet —twenty-six letters in all,—when we can both read and write, we shall convey the meaning without error. Let the women of the New Age wash the mud from the hair of strangers.” "I'll be glad then," said Taffy, "because, don't forget, though you brought other spears from the Tegumai tribe, you forgot to bring my daddy's black-hilted spear." The chief yelled and yelled and sang, "Dear Taffy, next time you write a picture alphabet, you'd better have someone who can speak our language bring it and explain what it means. I don't mind anything myself, but for Tegumai The rest of the tribe is worse off, as you've seen, startling strangers." They took the strange man (what a Tewara) because he was a gentleman and didn't make a fuss about new age women getting mud in his hair.But from then until now (all Taffey's fault, I think), very few little girls have enjoyed learning to read and write.Most of them like to draw and play around Daddy - just like Taffy. Running down the Merrow Road-- Today's overgrown footprints Just an hour from Kildford town The Wei River winds its way down. Here they heard the bells jingle, The old Britons come riding in their best costumes Watch the swarthy phoenix walk along West Road brought their goods. Here, or near, they meet hold racial talks such as— Exchange jewels for Viterbi Jet, Trade tin for dazzling shell collars, and more. But before that, long, long (Bison used to roam here) Taffy and his daddy crawl Go down and make your home there. And the beavers in Broad Stony Brook and Build a swamp where Briley stands: Hear Hill will come to find Tafi Mai standing by Briley. The River Wey, Taffy called the Wagga River, was then six times larger than it is now; All the people of the tribe of Tegumai Then they engraved noble graphics!