Four Truffula Trees

[whichwayyoulean]

[The screaming of babies over the journals is a well known sound by now, and the screaming coming from this one is no different. Except that halfway through a particularly loud scream, someone has decided to start strumming a guitar. Which is soon joined by what might be called a lullaby, if the singer had no idea how to make babies go to sleep. Which is pretty much the case here]

♫ Hush little baby
Sleep time is now
Your diaper is empty
And you’ve drunk half a cow

It really would be lovely
If you’d rest your head
Or daddy's sleep deprivation
Will make him drop dead

You’ve been rocked, you’ve been cooed at
For five whole nights through
But your demanding cries keep coming
What more can we do?

So sleep, little baby
Just close your eyes
Whoever said this was easy
Was just telling lies ♪

[The crying stops...for about ten seconds, before it continues]

Okay wow, seriously. Where is your off switch?

Comments

[whichwayyoulean]

Give the inmates something to look forward to other than the moments of complete insanity, huh? What do you play?

[Ask him, go on. I DARE you]

[cantacquityou]

I play a bit of flute, myself...


[Oh. It'll happen...eventually.]

[whichwayyoulean]

Really? That's pretty cool.

[cantacquityou]

From context, I take it a 'Thneed' isn't a musical instrument...

[whichwayyoulean]

Oh, no. It's a Fine Something That Everyone Needs. It's a garment that can literally be anything.

[cantacquityou]

...









I am not sure I am following you, here.

[whichwayyoulean]

[He'll draw a Thneed for you, not that it's much help given the thing looks like a sweater that a four armed person would wear. If one of the arms was permanently looped around their body]

Just a quick turns and it can be anything. It can be a scarf, or a sweater, or for absorbing spillages. A hand bag, a sleeping bag, a disposable diaper. It can also be used as a hat or a pillow or a carpet or sheets. Or curtains or a net for catching butterflies, or an exercises aide. It can be a sock, or dressing gown, or a cat sweater or... [You actually have to stop him]

[cantacquityou]

[No, he's not. Not yet. Go on. XD]

[whichwayyoulean]

It can be a tea-cosy, a toothbrush holder, a sarong or a swimsuit. It can be a nest for a canary, or any bird you'd want to give a nest for, really. You can make it into a skipping rope, or a tightrope for an acrobat, or a parachute, or an interesting and exotic soup. It can be a sled in the winter or a parasol in the summer, and in the fall? Well, you can use it to bag up all the leaves. You can use it to keep books, or stamps, or iguanas. It can be a saddle for a horse, or a windshield wiper, it's also great for getting rid of carborator rust...

[cantacquityou]

...



...Can it defend you in court?

[whichwayyoulean]

It can be used as a piece of evidence.