My foos won't moos
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- Moose: name of rivers in New York and Maine, USA and in Canada
- Fuss: (German) foot
- My feet won't move.
- Moos: (German) moss, capturing the way that the woman is transforming into a stone.
This line also refers back to the earlier story of the Mookse and the Gripes (pp. 152-9).