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241 – How the First Letter was Written

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Do You Have a Black Handled Spear, Said Tugamaya?

The tribe of Tugamaya asked her why she had brought the stranger man to fetch daddy's black handled spear. She told them that he came with a horrible picture showing you were full of spears. They laughed and said, Small person with no manners who ought to be spanked. And I draw to mummy at the mouth of the cave, looking pleased because he is a nice stranger man. The only people who did not laugh were Tushamaya to Endrow and all the Neolithic ladies. Their husbands would say, idiot, ever so often.

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