lay me down WAS Re: " Olive, the other reindeer"

[James Harbeck]

>When I first heard this, I didn't have sufficient command of speech to
>have developed any expectations about it. That [nauwaileimi] should be
>as meaningless as Shadrach, Meshach, or Abindago (as I, as a child,
>heard the last) to a child of toddler's age or younger is not
>something that I find difficult to understand.

Fair enough. I think I read it before I ever heard it. It wasn't,
IIRC, something my parents ever had me recite -- they were probably
as creeped out by it as I was.

James Harbeck.

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