MISS MOPPET

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 18, 18 November 1927, Page 6

MISS MOPPET

Miss Moppet, five Years old, but wise And very ‘much alive, Did once surprise And shock two ladies (prim’s the only word), Who | an odd obsession | That children should be seen, not heard, ‘By chatting gaily from her sofa-corner, Indifferent to pained glances cast upon her And making use of an absurd Expression. Miss Moppet, talking nincteen To the dozen, Detailed how she had been At the WEDDING of her cousin Jane, and when Uncle Jack married Aunt Claire, She too had been there; At various BURYINGS she liad played a pari, Minor or major as the corpse interred Was human, cat, dog, monkey, rabbit, bird; So. she related with a touch of art. She had helped at more than one CHRISTENING (She wondered if for such the vicar paid Then in ahon the listening | Ears of those prim ladies, Without warning, ITer expression of regret That she had never yet Been at a BORNING. -A. C. S. Scrimgeour.