Buster has a witch ring and he says he kills witches by throwing water on them.(1)
Some people don't know that I'm a witch-killer.
Who doesn't know?
I don't know. Some grownups. And also some kids.
Why don't they know?
I don't know. Maybe they don't see me. But Dorothy(2) sees me all the time.
She sees you killing witches?
No. But sometimes Dorothy, she doesn't see me downstairs so she thought, maybe I'm upstairs somewhere. Maybe he's upstairs somewhere, getting his baby.
Getting his baby?
Yeah, me. I. That's why I say me, because that's me: I. So she goes upstairs and she goes to my baby's room. Well, I sleep in my baby's room, and she sleeps in my bed. And also Dorothy went upstairs, and she went up to my room, and she sees me in there getting my baby. She comes in the morning when I first wake up, and she sees me in there getting my baby.
Is Daisy your baby?
No, her name is Maliha Daisy Paris-Kaufman. Maliha(3) is her first name. Daisy is her middle name. And Paris-Kaufman is her last name. Like Paris-Kaufman is my last name. I call her Maliha Daisy Paris-Kaufman. That's what I call her. I think I should get another ring because this one hurts me too much. But I think this one's(4) fine. I think I should keep it. It's not hurting me too much.
Notes:
1. "The Wizard of Oz" is a big hit in our house.
2. Dorothy Gale. You know, blue dress, sings about rainbows. Yeah, she's Buster's cousin, apparently, and hangs around here a lot. Once in a while, we're informed that she's gone back to Kansas. She usually comes back within a day or so.
3. Maliha is the name of the baby elephant at the STL zoo. It's also the new name of Buster's stuffed white tiger, which is also known variously as Mouse, Deppard and Dike-Jobe and is sometimes referred to as his son, though since he became Maliha he's turned into a she. The tiger, that is, not Buster. Maliha the elephant is a she. It's not clear to me, by the way, that Buster was referring to the tiger when he was talking about his baby.
4. Same one.
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