‘Um,’ said Taffy. ‘These picture-sounds are rather a bother! Daddy’s just as good as come here himself and told me to get more water for Mummy to cook with.’ She went to the spring at the back of the house and filled the tank from a bark bucket, and then she ran down to the river and pulled her Daddy’s left ear — the one that belonged to her to pull when she was good.
‘Now come along (теперь постарайся) and we’ll draw all the left-over sound-pictures (и мы нарисуем все пропущенные изображения звуков),’ said her Daddy (сказал ее Папочка), and they had a most inciting day of it (и у них был очень интересный день /состоящий/ из этого), and a beautiful lunch in the middle (и превосходный обед в середине), and two games of romps (и две шумные игры;
group [grHp], arm [Rm], partly ['pRtlI]
‘Now come along and we’ll draw all the left-over sound-pictures,’ said her Daddy, and they had a most inciting day of it, and a beautiful lunch in the middle, and two games of romps. When they came to T, Taffy said that as her name, and her Daddy’s, and her Mummy’s all began with that sound, they should draw a sort of family group of themselves holding hands. That was all very well to draw once or twice; but when it came to drawing it six or seven times, Taffy and Tegumai drew it scratchier and scratchier, till at last the T-sound was only a thin long Tegumai with his arms out to hold Taffy and Teshumai. You can see from these three pictures partly how it happened. (20, 21, 22.)
Many of the other pictures were much too beautiful to begin with (многие из остальных картинок были слишком уж красивы, чтобы начинать с них), especially before lunch (особенно перед обедом), but as they were drawn over and over again on birch-bark (но по мере того, как их рисовали снова и снова опять на березовой коре), they became plainer and easier (они становились яснее и легче), till at last even Tegumai said (пока наконец Тегумай не сказал) he could find no fault with them (что он не может придраться к ним;
fault [fLlt], gentle [Gentl], sacred ['seIkrId]