“I didn’t say ‘Yes, indeed, only tell it quick,’ but ‘Would you like to hear the tale of the Black Bear and the Ram?’”
“O dear mother, if you don’t tell it soon I shall begin to cry!”
“Did I not tell you it was a sad story? However, I did not say ‘O dear mother, if you don’t tell it soon I shall begin to cry,’ but ‘Would you like to hear the tale of the Black Bear and the Ram?’”
“Would you like to hear the tale of the Black Bear and the Ram?”
“There, you see, you know most of it already, and there is only the end:
“The Black Bear and the Ram,
The Ram and the Black Bear,
They couldn’t endure each other,
And so my story ends there.”
Done already?