` Come here , said Taffy . ` Do you know where my Mummy lives ? ' And the Stranger-man said ` Um ! ' being , as you know , a Tewara . ` Silly ! ' said Taffy , and she stamped her foot , because she saw a shoal of very big carp going up the river just when her Daddy could n't use his spear . ` Do n't bother grown-ups , ' said Tegumai , so busy with his spear-mending that he did not turn round . ' I are n't , said Taffy . ' I only want him to do what I want him to do , and he wo n't understand . ' ` Then do n't bother me , said Tegumai , and he went on pulling and straining at the deer-sinews with his mouth full of loose ends . The Stranger-man -- a genuine Tewara he was -- sat down on the grass , and Taffy showed him what her Daddy was doing . The Stranger-man thought , this is a very wonderful child . She stamps her foot at me and she makes faces . She must be the daughter of that noble Chief who is so great that he wo n't take any notice of me . ' So he smiled more politely than ever . ` Now , ' said Taffy , ' I want you to go to my Mummy , because your legs are longer than mine , and you wo n't fall into the beaver-swamp , and ask for Daddy 's other spear -- the one with the black handle that hangs over our fireplace . ' The Stranger-man -LRB- and he was a Tewara -RRB- thought , ` This is a very , very wonderful child . She waves her arms and she shouts at me , but I do n't understand a word of what she says . But if I do n't do what she wants , I greatly fear that that haughty Chief , Man-who-turns-his-back-on-callers , will be angry . ' He got up and twisted a big flat piece of bark off a birch-tree and gave it to Taffy .
He did this , Best Beloved , to show that his heart was as white as the birch-bark and that he meant no harm ; but Taffy did n't quite XXXXX .
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