saw a biding and The door open'd and They walt in. and They saw a big slimy monster and it chas'd Them aey.
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Author's commentary:
biding = building
walt = went
aey = away
The grammar may be questionable, but a seven-year-old using Shakespearean apostrophes is pretty dope (open'd, chas'd).
The conceptualization of the monster was almost certainly influenced by "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters", a Saturday morning TV serial that ran in the U.S. between 1975 and 1978.
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