To Do by Gertrude Stein

Author:Gertrude Stein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

You have to say the whole alphabet almost to get to because Q always throws you out. Now everybody knows that. So there is R, R rolls around and around like a ball not that it is a ball not at all. for Robert, Redbreast, Rachel and Rosy.

Rose had a dog a little dog named Chilly.

Chilly was his name and chilly was his nature.

That is in winter, in summer it was another matter.

In the summer he was as mad as could be.

Rosy said to him remember Chilly how cold you were in the winter.

But Chilly said no it is summer and I will kill everything, you see you just watch me.

And Rosy did she just watched Chilly and she saw that one thing led to another and then to one thing more.

Chilly began by barking at his dinner. He barked very hard at his dinner. Then he ate his dinner. Then Chilly began of course this was summer he began to be warmer and warmer and one thing followed after another. He saw a chicken and he thought a chicken with its feathers on must be hot, so he went after it like a shot, and it was too big to kill, not that really Chilly would want to kill it, but he did want it to be still so he could take all its feathers off until there would be no feathers on it, and it would be nice and cool and perhaps would go swimming in a pool.

Rosy tried to save it but Chilly wanted to shave it shave all its feathers off by pulling them out of course, and so he did and Rosy was cross because everybody would say that they would take Chilly away and everybody would be cross of course, cross with Rosy because Chilly was such a little silly, it was Rosy’s fault of course.

And so Rosy tried to take Chilly away from the chicken where it lay and then Chilly decided to play it was a mouse’s birthday. He did play that it was a mouse’s birthday, five little mousies were born and Chilly said there would not be any harm in running after the mother mouse now that the little mousies were born, so he chased the mother mouse away and later in the day he found her again and what shall I say, well Chilly made away with the mother mouse that day, the day the little mousies were born and even though it was warm the little mousies born that day never had another birthday.

And this was a day of Rosy’s little dog Chilly whom everybody said was silly but he was not at all silly, and in the summer he was not chilly, no it was Rosy who was silly to let Chilly do whatever he wanted to. But they just went on every day, Rosy and Chilly and in the summer when it was warm Chilly did a lot of harm, not really very much harm because

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