Benny, do you know what
balderdash means? she
asked, standing beside me
on the balcony of the flats.
Why? I asked. My daddy
said don't talk balderdash,
she said, but if I don't know
what it means how am I to
know if I am talking about it.
I watched the baker draw up
in his horse drawn cart, stop
and put bread in a wooden
basket and go to one of the
doors of the flats. I think it
means something to do with
making things, I suggested.
No, that haberdasher, she said,
a lady who sells ribbons and
silk things, like my aunt.
I thought hard(unusual for me).
The baker came along the balcony.
Hey, Mister, what's balderdash
mean? I asked him. What you're
doing: idle and senseless talk,
he said, walking on to the end flat.
Well there you are, I told her, don't
talk idle and senseless talk to
your old man. But I don't, she said.
She rabbited on about something
or other and I guessed he was
talking about her and her mother.
Feb 24, 2018
Feb 24, 2018 at 11:57 AM UTC
Benny, do you know what
balderdash means? she
asked, standing beside me
on the balcony of the flats.
Why? I asked. My daddy
said don't talk balderdash,
she said, but if I don't know
what it means how am I to
know if I am talking about it.
I watched the baker draw up
in his horse drawn cart, stop
and put bread in a wooden
basket and go to one of the
doors of the flats. I think it
means something to do with
making things, I suggested.
No, that haberdasher, she said,
a lady who sells ribbons and
silk things, like my aunt.
I thought hard(unusual for me).
The baker came along the balcony.
Hey, Mister, what's balderdash
mean? I asked him. What you're
doing: idle and senseless talk,
he said, walking on to the end flat.
Well there you are, I told her, don't
talk idle and senseless talk to
your old man. But I don't, she said.
She rabbited on about something
or other and I guessed he was
talking about her and her mother.
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