But if you don’t eat bananas like all the others,”
Scaredypants said, “Then what do you live on?”
“That is a squelching tricky problem around
here,” Molgrips answered. “In this sloshflunking
Whales Country, happy eats like pineapples and
pigwinkles is simply not growing. Nothing is
growing except for one extreemly icky-poo
vegetable. It is called the snozzcumber.”
“The snozzcumber!” cried Scaredypants. “There’s no
such thing!”
Molgrips looked at Scaredypants and smiled, showing
about twenty of his square white teeth. “Yesterday,”
he said “we was not believeing in Molgrips’s, was we?
Today we is not believing in snozzcumbers. Just
because we happen not to have actually seen
something with our own little winkles, we think it is
not existing.”