letters into my head?"

Taffy was glad of the chance to show off. "Oh, that's easy. You
make up a tale about them. See here. A is the end of a house; it's
just like one with a beam across. B is a cat with his tail curled
under him--watch me drawing it. C is an old woman stooping; and D is
another cat, only his back is more rounded. Once upon a time, there
lived in a cottage an old woman who went about with two cats, one on
each side of her--that's how you go on."

"But I can't go on. You must do it for me."

"Well, each of these cats had a comb, and was combed every Saturday
night. One was a good cat, and kept his comb properly--like E, you
see. But the other had broken a tooth out of his--that's F--"

"I expect he was a fulmart," said Honoria.

Taffy agreed. He didn't know what a fulmart was, but he was not
going to confess it. So he went on hurriedly, and Honoria thought
him a wonder. They came to W.

"So they got into a ship (I'll show you how to make one out of paper,
exactly like W), and sailed up into the sky, for the ship was a Ship
of Stars--you make X's for stars; but that's a witch-ship; so it
stuck fast in Y, which is a cleft ash-stick, and then came a stroke
of lightning, Z, and burnt them all up!" He stopped, out of breath.

"I don't understand the ending at all," said Honoria. "What is a
Ship of Stars?"