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Two Years
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Two Years Adam (b. 9/24/72) 1. 8/5/75 A monkey a dog a book a fish The verse stories in this section were collected over a period of slightly more than one year. This means that the children were at the age level mentioned when the earliest stories were collected, but they were older when they told the later stories. Birthdates are given after each name, and these along with the story dates allow precise calculation of a child's age. The names of children have been changed throughout to preserve both the privacy and the innocence of their expression. 47 VERSE STORIES 2. 8/8/75 monkey fish my daddy a boat a man in the boat 3. 8/8/75 truck a broke car a dog a car a mommy a daddy a house a book Alz·ce (b.5. /10/72) 1. 2/17/75 The cat went on the cakies the cat went on the car the cookie was in my nose the cookie went on the fireman's hat the fireman's hat went on the bucket the cookie went on the carousel the cookie went on the puzzle the cookie went on the doggie 2. 2/17/75 The dog went on the puppet the puppet went on the house the house went on the pigeon 3. 5/13/75 The dog jumped over the fence [and then repeats the last story] 48 TWO YEARS 4. 6/3/75 Peter went over the castle 5. 7/15/75 The slide hits the swing and the bench bumped the ceiling the bag bumped· the fence the watergun bumped the cigarette the swing bumped the water-fountain and the slide bumped the puddle [story told in park with all the objects present] 6. 7/25/75 I saw a worm jumped over the fence and a fly got on the worm and the dirt got i~ the worm's mouth the worm went··"ow" [demonstrates] that's the end 7. 7/29/75 [Alice is reading a book to Dan: All About You, by Gail Mahan, Hallmark books.] One day there was a girl named Nammy and a boy named Tommy [picture shows a boy and girl] then there was a fire in the house she had trees in the house a kitty came in the house and a doggie bit the kitty and the man hit the kitty 8. 7/29/75 The w()~m jumped over the tray and a people stepped on it people stepped on the worm 49 VERSE STORIES and somebody lied on it and swimmed on it in the water and somebody stepped on the worm and somebody lied on a people a shoe lied on the worm and floated 9. 7/30/75 There was a little bird named Bluejay and he said "caw, caw" a chair jumped over the truck and a shoe stepped on a truck and a mouse went on a train track and that's the end 10. 8/13/75 One day there was a monster creeping at the people and stopped itself and shoe stepped on it and the end 11. 8/13/75 Cat in the hat he climbed everywhere and the cat ate him all up 12. 10/4/75 [Dan: Tell me a story about a little girl.] Little girl got lost and she found a rocketship 'cause that one was almost taking off that's the end 13. 10/20/ 75 Cat jumped over the fence and the fence jumped the cat and the cat jumped under the fence and fence went under the cat's stomach so TWO YEARS and that's the end and the robber killed the cat and that's the end. 14. 1/12/76 A little girl was sitting in the morning on the chair and she was eating breakfast and she was sitting on a chair eating her breakfast and her mother said "time for her bath" and then that's the end 15. 4/11/76 Once upon a time there lived a horse and that's the end 16. 4/11/76 Once upon a time there lived a zebra and the zebra he went to the park and he got lost and he didn't know his way home so he had to try both ways and he had to tell the police which way to go that's the end he had to tell him...