Hut Hay Hen Hike

India: We’re doing an interview on the letter ‘H’. I know one thing about it: it’s respectable to feed animals.

समाधिBot: Oh yeah?

India: Mmm-hmm. Well, if you’ve got an animal, and you never feed it, that’s not good to do. Another thing is, if you see a stranger, you’re really not a’sposed to mess with it…

Taj: What — what did you say?

India: Well you’re not really supposed to mess with anybody if they’re a stranger.

समाधिBot: Yeah… wait… mess with their mind??

India: No, you know, talk to them.

समाधिBot: Oh, okay… right… um… okay. Taji, what’s in the picture? Can you see a letter ‘H’?

India: I can!

Taj: Yes, I can. It’s on the house.

समाधिBot: What color is the ‘H’?

India & Taj: White.

India: The chicken matches the color of the ‘H’. Another thing: the door looks like a pancake.

समाधिBot: It’s a pancake door!

India: But another thing about it: the girls did a good job. Usually you’re supposed to leave when you see a stranger, but instead they made a meal for him —

Taj: Hey daddy you did awesome trees.

समाधिBot: Thanks, Taj! India, do you want to tell the story behind this picture? You don’t have to tell the whole story, but tell generally what happened. I know that there was a hut, and there were three girls, and a creepy stranger, but I don’t know all of what happened.

India: I know one part of it. It’s kind of the end part. The girls all went to sleep, except the wise one, which kind of thought, “Oh! I have to feed the animals!” The other girls, they just went to sleep, and old stranger dude locked them in the cellar.

समाधिBot: Dear me…

India: But the girl who fed the animals, it’s kind of like a thing. You know, like a test? When you get a punishment for not doing something. Well why didn’t he tell them?

समाधिBot: Why indeed!

India: Another thing: there’s something kind of suspecting about the fire. Not everyone who just lives in the middle of nowhere knows how to light a fire. So maybe he knew how to make food… but the girls just kind of did it.

समाधिBot: Yeah… if you know how to make a fire, presumably you could make at least something simple enough to —

India: Like an egg —

समाधिBot: Like an egg. Something simple enough to feed the animals.

India: And the chicken — Taj, stop messing with the door.

समाधिBot: Are you gonna split, Taj?

Taj: Mommy said it’s lunch time.

India: The ‘H’ looks good because the chimney. In one part of the ‘H’ it goes up through the roof to the chimney. I thought the rest of the ‘H’ was just going to go up out of the chimney. And this background part is like a Christmas tree —

Taj: Hey guys it’s time to have lunch.

India: Dinner.

समाधिBot: Dinner.

India: Anyway that looks like Christmas has already gone past. And he had a Christmas tree but then he planted it somewhere.

समाधिBot: True dat.

India: And the roof looks like hay.

समाधिBot: Yep. And he’s having a fire inside his hut with a straw roof, which I don’t think I would do, but I guess in Scandinavian countries they do that. Seems dodgy to me.