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Subject: akkerpeetie and tooboody The little girl in the blue cap is pushing a doll’s perambulator which has lost a wheel. She balances and propels it with immense muscular effort and, at the same time, pours out a long story in successive bursts.‘And when he went into the castle, he called out three times, “Tooboody, tooboody, tooboody”, but of course he was an akkerpeetie man.’ ‘What say?’ with a patience that grieves for itself. ‘He was an akkerpeetie man.’ ‘That’s nothing, Maggie.’ ‘Yes, it is.’ The little girl with an adroit unexpected twist drives the perambulator over the iron edging of the path, on to the worn grass. Tall daffodils, florists’ daffodils, wave in the fenced-off beds; but the grass is still wintry. Empty cigarette-cartons lie about the children’s feet. ‘It’s the akkerpeetie,’ the little girl pants in a loud voice. ‘The akkerpeetie man – he was made of fish-bones.’ на akkerpeetie в голову приходит только человек амфибия или ихтиандр! Посдкажите плиззз |
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