Dick says there is no such thing as a kelpy . But then Dick has no imagination . It is no argument against a thing that you 've never seen it . I have never seen the pyramids , either , but I know that there are pyramids . Every summer we had some hobby . The last summer before Dick and Mimi came we were crazy about kites . A winter boy on the mainland showed Claude how to make them , and when we went back to the Big Half Moon we made kites galore . Even pirating was n't such good fun . Claude would go around to the other side of the Big Half Moon and we would play shipwrecked mariners signalling to each other with kites . Oh , it was very exciting . We had one kite that was a dandy . It was as big as we could make it and covered with lovely red paper ; we had pasted gold tinsel stars all over it and written our names out in full on it -- Claude Martin Leete and Philippa Brewster Leete , Big Half Moon Lighthouse . That kite had the most magnificent tail , too . It used to scare the gulls nearly to death when we sent up our kites . They did n't know what to make of them . And the Big Half Moon is such a place for gulls -- there are hundreds of them here . One day there was a grand wind for kite-flying , and Claude and I were having a splendid time . We used our smaller kites for signalling , and when we got tired of that Claude sent me to the house for the big one . I 'm sure I do n't know how it happened , but when I was coming back over the rocks I tripped and fell , and my elbow went clear through that lovely kite . You would never have believed that one small elbow could make such a big hole .
Claude said it was just like a girl to fall and stick her XXXXX through a kite , but I do n't see why it should be any more like a girl than a boy .
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