11/15 If a man gets a hole in him he dies, but his _chukko_ (coat) can be _toofered_ and _sivved apre_ (mended and sewed up) for ever. So, unless a man could get a new life every year, as they say the _hepputs_, the little lizards do, he needn't hope to live like an oak." "Do the lizards get a new life every year ?" "_Avali_. A _hepput_ only lives one year, and then he begins life over again." "Do snails live as long as lizards ?" "Not when I find 'em rya--if I am hungry. {32} You can find plenty on the hedges. |