A LadyBug's Complaint
I didn't mean to
eavesdrop;
I merely happened
by
in time to hear a
LadyBug
remark to DragonFly
~
"This trip to
market
every day
is such a tiring
walk.
The grocery store
is ten blocks down
this slippery, old
corn stalk!"
"My children have
such
appetites;
I don't see how they
do it.
They eat large
quantities
of pie,
and hardly stop to
chew it!"
"My dear, I'm not
my
usual self;
Most times I'm very
neat.
But so much cooking,
washing up
gives me such
dishpan
feet!"
©1946 by Mayme Baker
Cunningham
Illustration by Leon Tebbetts
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