tum-tum-t-y-y-rum

Updated: May 19, 2025

When Take remembered that they were going to take Bot'Chan to the Temple, she clapped her little brown hands. "Oh, I'm so glad!" she said. Then she popped out from under the covers of her bed and stood up on the soft straw matting. She was no sooner out of bed than from far away came the "Cling-cling-clang" of a great gong. And then, "Tum-tum-t-y-y-rum" rolled a great drum. "Hark!" said Taro.

Lucy Fitch Perkins - The Japanese Twins