` Snake -- pole -- broken -- egg -- carp -- tail and carp-mouth , ' said Taffy . ` Shu-ya . Sky-water -LRB- rain -RRB- . ' Just then a drop fell on her hand , for the day had clouded over . ` Why , Daddy , it 's raining . Was that what you meant to tell me ? ' ` Of course , ' said her Daddy . ` And I told it you without saying a word , did n't I ? ' ` Well , I think I would have known it in a minute , but that raindrop made me quite sure . I 'll always remember now . Shu-ya means rain , or `` it is going to rain . '' Why , Daddy ! ' She got up and danced round him . 'S ` pose you went out before I was awake , and drawed shu-ya in the smoke on the wall , I 'd know it was going to rain and I 'd take my beaver-skin hood . Would n't Mummy be surprised ? ' Tegumai got up and danced . -LRB- Daddies did n't mind doing those things in those days . -RRB- ` More than that ! More than that ! ' he said .
'S ` XXXXX I wanted to tell you it was n't going to rain much and you must come down to the river , what would we draw ?
Mummy danced fell got known pose saying surprised think told