BUNS AND BABES WELCOME
for a shilling to pay a man at the door
and there was the knitting
and in it the kitten,
the end of the wool all caught up in its claws!
Carefully she unravelled it,
anxious not to make it skit
but intent as she was on her lip-biting task
she quite forgot the waiting milkman
and rap, rap, rap, he struck her knocker
and up jumped Puss, his two eyes round.In a flash he was out of the drawer
running as he hit the ground,
half a mile outside the pound,
Dozy Dora's unravelled mitten
trailing out behind him.
But at least, thought Dora,
he was safe and sound.
Putting out a bowl of milk
(after paying off the churlish merchant)
she found his little bell and rang it.
Presently the cat came back
with half a moiien wrapped around it.
Oh dear, said Dozy Dora
and put down the old tin mug of coconut milk
and Baileys she was drinking with a loud clatter.
Try as she might she just couldn't remember
who she had been making the mitten for
As it was they were for herself,
to try to stop her fingers achingand to help her take hot cake
from out of the oven
(she was very good at baking).
She remembered eventually of course,
just after the main course,
her guests all now quite anxious for pudding.
Quickly she sent our the cat,
in his best frock and cap
to buy what he could for a shilling.
Imagine her stare when he flew down the stairs
with a tray of cup-cakes and eclairs.
"I was saving them for a rainy day," he purred.
"Is it raining then?" Dora asked the kitten,
"you might have told me earlier,
I might have remembered to bring in the washing."
But the clever kitten had already done itand do you know what?
He had even finished knitting the mitten.
Dear old Dozy Dora and her helpful kitten!
WILLOWDOWN ©2009
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