my five-year-old-niece went to visit her uncle-who-lives-in-a-palace
The palace has shiny parquet floors and is decorated with many glass orbs and other delicacies. The niece and her brother are very lively and nosey people.
The uncle laid out ground rules:
no sliding on the floors, no looking in cupboards, don't touch this or that or that
the niece listened then asked
can we fart?
Shuntaro Tanikawa.
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I love your niece.
ReplyDeleteThat is all.
she's priceless!
DeleteOh - too classic. What was the answer?
ReplyDeleteShe was told that there was a special farting garden if she needed to use it
DeleteI could never resist sliding on parquet floors.... no way, that's what they're for!
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I dreamed of living in a house with layers of slidey banisters and polished floors
DeleteNo chance of slipping and sliding here - I can barely keep my floors swept, never mind polished to slidable standard. I like the idea of a fart garden;sounds very Georgian and grand.
ReplyDeleteyes the fart garden must come after the knot garden in horticultural history
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