Down on the Farm

[beetiger]

I've been spending a lot of my time lately soothing the little guy when nothing's really very wrong, but he's just fussy. This often gets done by bouncing and singing for long periods of time. This evening, I found myself singing infinitely many verses of "Old MacDonald Had A Farm". Everyone knows what the cow says ("moo", right?), what some of the less standard ones say (foxes "yerf!"), and can guess what some other things say/do when they think about it (tilapia "swim", for example). After some lengthy period of amusing myself (and I hope Rhys), I discovered that 1) I don't know what canonical sound some of my favorite animals make (what *do* otters say anyway?) and 2) Farmer MacDonald in my universe has a weird collection of beings (the broker says "Buy! Sell!"; the aliens go "probe, probe")

This kid cries a long long time though. Please come to my edification and aid, for next time. Whom/what does Farmer McD have on his farm, and what does it say/how does it go?

(A random memory: When I was a child, my family used to occasionally go to an odd theme restaurant called "Down on the Farm", which featured country-style cooking in a mock-rustic setting. It was the only time I ever used to eat ham.)

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[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Cani go "choof! choof!"
Gormoror go "bash! bash!"
Herethroy go "grow! grow!"
Khtsoyis go "bang! run away!"
Orren go "Lookit that! Lookit that!"
Rassimel go "Mine! Mine!"
Sleeth go "Hunt! Hunt!'
Zi Ri smile mysterously. ("...with a mysterious smile here, and a mysterious smile there.)

You knew that book would come in handy, didn't you?

If that doesn't keep Rhys interested, sing about the 7+12.