Do you feel sorry for me?

I was hurt today
(says Ruby)
with a very bad hurt.

There was blood on my knee
and I banged my chin. See?
Do you feel sorry for me?

We were running too fast.
Lauren got a bleeding nose:
I crashed her with my head.

Ellen squealed Ee! but I just cried.
I have to scoot slowly now
because it hurts my knee.

Do you feel sorry for me?
Do you feel more sorry for Ellie,
or do you feel more sorry for me?

In the olden days

Sue is not a burglar girl
(says Ruby).

Her father was born
in the olden days.

Probably they didn't have
burglars then

but something worse
like pirates

or deadly weapons aliens.
Deadly means

really good
and not useless.

You're tired

You're tired
(says Elsie)
so it's good we're playing

something entiring
and something
not entiring.

I tell you what to do:
make some dolls' clothes.
That's entiring.

And then I go home
and you have a wee rest
when I'm not here.

You want to breathe

You sometimes feel like breathing
but it's best not to
(says Ruby).

Once you start breathing,
you have to keep going
and your throat just gets sore.

If that happens, there are two things
you can do. The first thing is,
you can have a drink of water
and it goes away and it's perfect again.

The second thing you can do to fix it
is, you can go "Aahaa, aahaa".
I'm the only person
who goes "Aahaa, aahaa".

I hardly even breathe, ever.
Just now and then, like this.