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Peter's Cake

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Title:     Peter's Cake
Author: Elizabeth Turner [More Titles by Turner]

Peter Careful had a cake
Which his kind mamma did bake;
Of butter, eggs, and currants made,
And sent to Peter--carriage paid.

"Now," said Peter, "they shall see,
Wiser than Harry I will be;
For I will keep my cake in store,
And that will make it last the more."

He, like Harry (sad to say),
Did not give a bit away,
But, miser-like, the cake he locks
With all his playthings in his box.

And sometimes silently he'd go,
When all he thought engag'd below,
To eat a very little piece,
For fear his treasure should decrease.

When next he went (it makes me laugh)
He found the mice had eaten half,
And what remain'd, though once a treat,
So mouldy, 'twas not fit to eat.


[The end]
Elizabeth Turner's poem: Peter's Cake

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