—you are not a boy, you know; don’t
pick people’s flowers—you might catch something; don’t throw stones at blackbirds,
because it might not be a blackbird at all; this is how to make a bread pudding; this is
how to make doukona; this is how to make pepper pot; this is how to make a good
medicine for a cold; this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it
even becomes a child; this is how to catch a fish; this is how to throw back a fish you
don’t like, and that way something bad won’t fall on you; this is how to bully a man; this
is how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man; and if this doesn’t work there are
other ways, and if they don’t work don’t feel too bad about giving up; this is how to spit
up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quick so that it doesn’t fall on you;
this is how to make ends meet; always squeeze bread to make sure it’s fresh; but what if
the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going
to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?