Whirring Up The Past

Baby Pierre is pleased that Rosa and the tinker like his story. 

It seems they respond well to pathos.

He tries to remember more sad facts regarding the carrot.

Yes, he and Ouvert were on their way to Le Havre, but why? And why with a carrot?

What's wrong? asks the tinker.

Nothing, says Baby Pierre. I'm just trying to remember more stuff about the carrot. But it eludes me.

Try self-hypnosis, says the tinker.

Good idea, says Baby Pierre. Ommmm.

Why is he saying Ommmm? asks Rosa.

Shh, says the tinker.

Baby Pierre's eyes roll back in his head. He falls into a trance, remembering Le Havre.

The carrot was only half a carrot, by the time they got there. The bottom half had been eaten by the knowlesi, and Quiet tartus, the two madcap frogs. And Terence and Belle had been with them.  And they had met up with Saints Meen and Maclou...... 

And then what?

Baby Pierre had been offered a job in the Shipowner's House in Le Havre. 

So it was only later that he learned the rest of the story.

Wake up, Baby Pierre! says the tinker. Did it work?

Yes, says Baby Pierre. I now remember what really happened.

Cool! says Rosa. Write some more of the story.

Baby Pierre writes (very small): Ouvert said he didn't remember a bird ate the carrot, and that made me wonder. What were my memories of that carrot? Soon the whirring of my o-wheels began to stir up the past. Ommmm...

That's a good touch, says the tinker. O-wheels and ommmm

I know, says Baby Pierre. He continues to write (very small):

I remembered the poor carrot had been half-eaten by two friends of ours, who were frogs. When it reached Le Havre we fished it out of the water and took it to Saint Meen and Saint Maclou. They gave it the power to communicate and it wrote, TAK ME BAC TO THE RIV AND TRUE ME IN. 

It wrote a note? asks Rosa.

Apparently, says Baby Pierre. The saints must have lent it a pen.