'It sounds all rough and edgy, like your shark-tooth saw when you're cutting out a plank for the canoe,' said Taffy.
'You mean all sharp at the edges, like this?' said Tegumai. And he drew. (17.)
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''Xactly,' said Taffy. 'But we don't want all those teeth: only put two.'
'I'll only put in one,' said Tegumai. 'If this game of ours is going to be what I think it will, the easier we make our sound-pictures the better for everybody.' And he drew. (18.)
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'Now we've got it,' said Tegumai, standing on one leg. 'I'll draw 'em all in a string like fish.'
'Hadn't we better put a little bit of stick or something between each word, so's they won't rub up against each other and jostle, same as if they were carps?'
'Oh, I'll leave a space for that,' said her Daddy. And very incitedly he drew them all without stopping, on a big new bit of birch-bark. (19.)
'Shu-ya-las ya-maru' said Taffy, reading it out sound by sound.
