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Fone Bone's attempts to compromise between the Valley-dwellers 'belief and his own disbelief evoked outrage on a previous occasion: in volume 5, Rock Jaw, Bone gets in an argument with an irate beaver who calls the Dreaming "hum-hum":
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Fone Bone's attempts to compromise between the Valley-dwellers 'belief and his own disbelief evoked outrage on a previous occasion: in volume 5, Rock Jaw, Bone gets in an argument with an irate beaver who calls the Dreaming "hum-hum":
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As Jaya walked up the hill, the air was filled with weekend chores: the steady insect hum-hum of lawn mowers, fathers home early, putting up the window screens, mothers shaking out cushions on the deck chairs.
Tell us we’re home Martina Budhos 2010
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As Jaya walked up the hill, the air was filled with weekend chores: the steady insect hum-hum of lawn mowers, fathers home early, putting up the window screens, mothers shaking out cushions on the deck chairs.
Tell us we’re home Martina Budhos 2010
Gammerstang commented on the word hum-hum
a coarse cotton cloth formerly imported from India.
August 11, 2018