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Young man," she replied, "those are naughty questions."
"I'm a goat," I said.
"Indeed you are, when you ask things just to be unpleasant. I've told you already all a boy of fourteen needs to know . As far as the rest -- it's simply not nice to go to the bathroom where people can see."
This latter wanted some explaining; the ancient narratives had not taught me whatbathroom meant, and given its definition I could still not grasp how one "went to the bathroom" out-of-doors, where no bathroom was. When all was finally made clear I ridiculed the queerness of it; danced round her on my knees with my wrapper drawn up to make public my "privates," as she called them, and gave demonstration of my contempt for humanniceness.
"Now look here!" she cried. I mistook her words and left off at once, expecting her to show herself in turn. I was in fact suddenly possessed with curiosity about something that had not occurred to me until that moment. But she made no move to lift her
Thursday, August 21, 2008
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