AND besides, she omitted to notice, the staff were too tall by about seven foot and a half. So she had to employ a mouse for the cook (who ate every page of the recipe book), as butler she chose a green-liveried cricket, who, when handing a plate was accustomed to lick it, and the maid was a snail who hid in her shell whenever they wished her to answer the bell. In addition to these there were thirty-nine persons, for the cook had insisted on bringing all her sons. The maid brought her cousins, the butler his brother, till it seemed she'd go bankrupt one way and another, from which she was happily saved by the fact that she fed them by magic, and kept them by tact. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FONTAINEBLEAU (AUTUMN) by SARA TEASDALE A CHILD'S THOUGHT OF GOD by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING OFF THE GROUND by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE THE FUNERAL by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE ARIZONA POEMS: 4. THE WINDMILLS by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER |