Thousand splendid suns (page 50)

Afterward, after Jalil went home, Mariam and Nana had a little quarrel over this. Mariam said she had deceived him.

After tea with Nana, Mariam and Jalil dependably went angling in the stream. He demonstrated to her best practices to cast her line, how to reel in the trout. He showed her the best possible approach to gut a trout, to clean it, to lift the meat off the bone in one movement. He drew pictures for her as they sat tight for a strike, demonstrated to her best practices to attract an elephant one stroke while never lifting the pen off the paper. He showed her rhymes. Together they sang:

Lili water basin,

Sitting on an earth way,

Minnow sat on the edge and drank,

Slipped, and in the water she sank.