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mothers and nurses know what her remarks mean, before other people know, as that ' Gruch' means ' Give it to me at once,' while ' Wa' is ' Why do you wear such a funny hat ?' is because, mixing so much with babies, they have picked up a little of the fairy language.
Of late David has been thinking back hard about the fairy tongue, with his hands clutching his temples, and he has remembered a number of their phrases which I shall tell you some day if I don't forget. He had heard them in the days when he was a thrush, and though I suggested to him that perhaps it is really bird language he is remembering, he says not, for these phrases are about fun and adventures, and the birds talked of nothing but nest-building. He distinctly remembers that the birds used to go from spot to spot like ladies at shop windows, looking at the different nests and saying, 'Not my colour, my dear,' and ' How would that do with a soft lining f' and ' But will it wear ?' and ' What hideous trimming!' and so on. 62 |
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