Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Free

- Mama, mama, nu heb je korte haartjes, net als ik... Mama, mama, heeft een paard je haartjes opgegeten, net als bij Lena Lena?
- Non, c'est le coiffeur qui m'a coupé les cheveux.
- Mama, mama, heeft de kapper je haartjes opgegeten?

- Mama, mama, now you have short hair, just like me... Mama, mama, did a horse eat your hair, just as with Lena Lena?
- No, the hairdresser cut my hair.
- Mama, mama, did the hairdresser eat your hair?

Lena Lena, by Harriët van Reek, is our hero-ess. She drinks rain-tea, swims in her bath with her goldfish, and covers the naked body of her friend Marie with twigs and leafs, because it looks pretty that way. Here is how the horse helped Lena Lena get her nail polish-covered hands unstuck from her hair, by eating most of it, in a helpful kind of way...

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