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My Gathering memoirs

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by Talisa, of the Friendly Findies

"Shall I tell you wha appen'd to me at the the gatherin at Tootonier this year.I were tarkin to a really nice friendly pesant guy. I be sayin to im more than just elloooo alot of times befor as I do. Anyway wha appen'd were I do show im my really really very scary thing an' e did jump lots. I do be tellin im before that it were really really very scary but you know wha I dont think he believed me. I dont know why! Anyway after e start brethin again e got imself ready to see it again an' e did ask me to see it. So i do pop it in to 'is 'and an' realized that e 'ad not yet met Burnard. So while e were lookin at the scary thing I do hav' a root in my little bag to find an' wake up Burnard.Well dont feel sorry fur Burnard 'cause e be use to it.It not be crul if e be use to it.Anyway where were i oh yes.Anyway I do get Burnard out of my little bag an' do say "ave you met Burnard yet. E only got one eye. People dont believe me when I say e only got one eye" an' I do show 'im under Burnards eye patch an' e do look everso sad fur Bunard then.So i do tell 'im the story of how Burnard lost 'is eye.Ido say"You see what I think appen'd wereBurnard 'ad a friend called Burp an' Burp 'ad no tongue.So what I think appen'd were they 'ad a fight an' Burp burped in Burnard eye which did make Burnard eye go all mouldy until it did fall out, so to get is own back on Burp,Burnard bit Burps tongue off. An' that do be what 'appens when you do fight. You do get hurted an' that dont be 'Cause it do hurt".Then the nice pesent guy do say e got somethin' to show me an' do put is 'an' in is pocket an' brings out a round thing. E do say that a nice lady give it to im an' it were called onion an'did say that if e were to get imself hungry then e were to eat it. Then e do tell me that it do have magic in it 'cause e seen someone cut one once an' it made them cry. So I did tell im that that wasn't right ,cause if it were onion that were cut it should be onion that be the one to cry. Then I do tell im that if e were right then e sould not eat it 'cause if it do make you cry when you cut it then if e were to eat it then that would make im really very sad an' anyway I do tell im that if I do have onion as my friend then I would not eat it as it were a very nice friend."

 

The rest of the story can be read in Talisa's new 500 page book called

WHY USE ONE WORD WHEN 20 WILL DO

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