I herd…the most amazing sound. Turns out, what that sound is, was: the Yuman voice, making werds. They sounded grate! They sounded like pretty music!
-- Fox 8 (N/A)

Importance: In this line of narration, Fox 8 recalls hearing human language for the first time. He heard a human woman telling stories to her children; he listened to the stories during many nights and learned to speak the human language that way. As seen in this quotation, Fox 8 uses reverent words to describe language and storytelling, and the narrative thereby establishes a thematic emphasis on the importance of words and stories.

One leson I lerned during my nites at that Yuman window was: a gud riter will make the reeder feel as bad as the Yuman does in there Story...If you want to feel as bad as we Foxes are feeling at this time: (1) bare lee eat for weeks, (2) note that many friends, including...
-- Fox 8 (N/A)