That way was the whey and in the other direction were the curds and Little Miss Muffet had not gotten around to trying to figure out what "curds" and "whey" are, because she was still trying to answer the more urgent question of "What the heck is a tuffet?!?"
And if Jeff says, "Well, I'll just have to tuffet out," I'm going to poke him in the eye, Three-Stooges-style!