'Why, they're vegetables!' exclaimed Peri, perhaps louder than she would have wished!

Dum: NOHOW!

Dee: Contrariwise.

"Yes, you are," countered Peri, loftily. "You're turnips!" Anxiously, she wondered how they'd take this apparently startling revelation."

Dum: NOHOW! We're poets.

Dee: You like poetry?

"Ye-es," replied Peri, before she could stop herself. This whole scene had begun to take on a discomforting familiarity."

Dum: What shall we tell her? The Walnut and the Cauliflower is the longest.

Dee: I'll start! 'Ahem' 'The Sun was shining on the allotment...

Dum: ...And the cauliflower were walking through the weeds'

Dee: 'They wept like anything to see so many wasted seeds.'