heard them on the stairs / heart stopped / skippy da beat / voices / excited young voices / cat ran to the top o tha cupboard / door opened / in came Octavio eyes wide / glinting / hey! / exclaimed / oh mister please looky / this is me seeing! / aye / he can see an I can talk / cheeky little head / Angelino / pops around tha doorframe / great whoops of amusement / prancin about / miricales / possible? / curse the word / please / they rush over an sit pantin / delicate monkey horses fresh from tha canter / minds racin wif hex-cite-ment / jumbly words n hex-pressions / hopeless incapapable / keep pace / tale ta tell / how? / both at once / we was in tha market buy vegies when sudden like fram tha hair falls this ere golden arrey / poing / stuck in tha bottom a tha drinkin trough / glitterin golden arrow / everyones crowdin after each other / shoving ta be tha firsts ta get it / but just scratchys their eds sayn nufin ther / n turnin away / I saw it theys hin-sistin ta each other / saw what / donno looked like a er goldon arrow like / laughin / was funny cause they starts mockin heach hother / n even som themsels / but me I could see it / whispies Angelino / he could see it / echo Octavio / thought better drinks tha wawty in tha trough who knows / n it fixed us / much whoopin an prancin wide-eyed / dont believe it / murrmured ol artist mechanically / is true / it happened / yhave believe it! / door opened / Angelino and Octavio entered solemn / what had he been thirikin of / ol man wondered / grey hard day