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After the
turtles waddled on through the crowd, making
a big circle around the outskirts of the market,
the line closed back in. Muff was baffled for
sure. She kept looking after them wondering
what the heck they were. Plod, plod, plod they
went along, slowly with the trumpeter out in front.
The tree-branch-wicker stands on the sides of
the road were heaped high with fruit and vegetables.
The cloth material that was out of this world
and drove G wild! She was oohing and ahhing and
drooling. Simeon was going nuts, too. They were
both ooohhing and aaahhhing! He wanted some new
vests to make him look handsomer. So Simeon and
Granma both bought some material to make clothes
with, or curtains, or quilts, and such. Granma
was thinking, maybe she could take his measurements
and make him a vest, if they ever got back this
way, into this world. Cheesh, she had never asked
him the name of the place they were in. "Simeon,
con permiso," she said, "What do you
call this place or this world?" "Es
la tierra de los 3 solares, o la Trinidad." he
said. (it’s the land of the three suns, or Trinity." "How
nice!" exclaimed G. "Trinity. We’ve
been from Earth to Timbuktoo to Trinity. And
we’re going to the Island of the Lamb soon. Far
out!"
Julio wondered why all these different animals
didn’t freak out at the site of them = humans,
as they were. I guess they were use to far freakin’
out stuff here. Julio began checking around to
see if there were any toys to play with; since
everyone around here was an animal. He found some
chess games, balls, tops, marbles, and wooden beads
that slid around a wire and bumped into other things,
tripping different devices; hard to explain. There
were also some toy horns, so Hoo got one of these
and some whistles and bells too. You never know
when these are gonna’ come in handy, he thought.
Granma uses whistles to scare coyotes away. Then
he found 3 big balls for da Muff to play with.
Just pointing to Simeon was enough for them to
write J a bill for him that he later gave to Simeon
with some scribbling on it that he couldn‘t read.
J looked and looked, but couldn’t find any toy
trucks, but then what would animals need with those?
He was content with what he found. Now he needed
to look for a bigger pocket knife.
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