Recipe for Preserving Children:
Ingredients:
1 grass grown field
several dogs and puppies (if available)
pebbles or sand or rocks
1/2 dozen children (or whatever number you have on hand)
1 brook
Method:
Into field, pour children and dogs, allowing to mix well.
Pour book over pebbles until slightly frothy.
When children are nicely brown (or rosy cheeks in the winter), cool in warm bath.
When dry, serve with mil and freshly baked gingerbread.
(old family recipe)
-from Mitten Strings for God by Katrina Kenison
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walking on sunshine
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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