Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.
I thumped her on the back, picked her up and dropped her on top of her dungarees. __ut them pants on,_ I said, __nd be a man._ She did, but she cried quietly until I shook her and said gently, __top it now. I didn__ carry on like that when I was a little girl._ I got into my clothes and dumped her into the bow of the canoe and shoved off.All the way back to the cabin I forced her to play one of our pet games. I would say something__nything__nd she would try to say something that rhymed with it. Then it would be her turn. She had an extraordinary rhythmic sense, and an excellent ear.I started off with __e__l go home and eat our dinners.___n_ Lord have mercy on us sinners,_ she cried. Then, __et__ see you find a rhyme for __onth_!___ bet I__l do it _ jutht thith onthe,_ I replied. __ guess I did it then, by cracky.___ourse you did, but then you__e wacky. Top that, mister funny-lookin_!__ pretended I couldn__, mainly because I couldn__, and she soundly kicked my shin as a penance. By the time we reached the cabin she was her usual self, and I found myself envying the resilience of youth. And she earned my undying respect by saying nothing to Anjy about the afternoon__ events, even when Anjy looked us over and said, __ust look at you two filthy kids! What have you been doing__wimming in the bayou?___addy splashed me,_ said Patty promptly.__nd you had to splash him back. Why did he splash you?__ __ause I spit mud through my teeth at him to make him mad,_ said my outrageous child.__atty!___ea culpa,_ I said, hanging my head. _ __was I who spit the mud.__njy threw up her hands. __eaven knows what sort of a woman Patty__ going to grow up to be,_ she said, half angrily.__ broad-minded and forgiving one like her lovely mother,_ I said quickly.__ice work, bud,_ said Patty.Anjy laughed. __utnumbered again. Come in and feed the face.
The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume III: Killdozer!
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I thumped her on the back, picked her up and dropped her on top of her dungarees. __ut them pants on,_ I said, __nd be a man._ She did, but she cried quietly until I shook her and said gently, __top it now. I didn__ carry on like that when I was a little girl._ I got into my clothes and dumped her into the bow of the canoe and shoved off.All the way back to the cabin I forced her to play one of our pet games. I would say something__nything__nd she would try to say something that rhymed with it. Then it would be her turn. She had an extraordinary rhythmic sense, and an excellent ear.I started off with __e__l go home and eat our dinners.___n_ Lord have mercy on us sinners,_ she cried. Then, __et__ see you find a rhyme for __onth_!___ bet I__l do it _ jutht thith onthe,_ I replied. __ guess I did it then, by cracky.___ourse you did, but then you__e wacky. Top that, mister funny-lookin_!__ pretended I couldn__, mainly because I couldn__, and she soundly kicked my shin as a penance. By the time we reached the cabin she was her usual self, and I found myself envying the resilience of youth. And she earned my undying respect by saying nothing to Anjy about the afternoon__ events, even when Anjy looked us over and said, __ust look at you two filthy kids! What have you been doing__wimming in the bayou?___addy splashed me,_ said Patty promptly.__nd you had to splash him back. Why did he splash you?__ __ause I spit mud through my teeth at him to make him mad,_ said my outrageous child.__atty!___ea culpa,_ I said, hanging my head. _ __was I who spit the mud.__njy threw up her hands. __eaven knows what sort of a woman Patty__ going to grow up to be,_ she said, half angrily.__ broad-minded and forgiving one like her lovely mother,_ I said quickly.__ice work, bud,_ said Patty.Anjy laughed. __utnumbered again. Come in and feed the face.
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