In
Chapter 4, while Milo and Tock, the dog, are wandering around the market, they encounter the
Spelling Bee and the Humbug. These two creatures argue over the importance of education overall
and of spelling in particular. While the bee thinks it is important to spell everything
correctly, the bug characterizes that as the approach of a bankrupt intellect. When the two
get into a physical fight, they knock over all the market stalls, and the words in them end up
scattered all over.
Chapter 5 opens with people uttering sentences in which
the words are completely out of order. One of the market stall keepers, for example, shouts
Done what youve looked instead of Look what youve done; the mixed-up words come out as
nonsense. As they start reorganizing everything, another word seller bemoans their situation:
Do going to we what are!"
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