Covert Operation!

SUNDAY SCRIBBLINGS

http://sundayscribblings.blogspot.com/suggests

'COVERT'

Nuts-in-May 

http://granniemay.blogspot.com/

printed this charming true story on her blog some time ago. I hope she likes this version of it. 

COVERT OPERATION!

I tell the tale of two naughty girls! We were ten or eleven years old.

We were into secrets in a big way, secrets not to be told.

We whispered to each other that we badly needed mice.

Although we both had cats and dogs and all of them were nice,

We wanted tiny little pets we could hide inside the house.

And what better for a secret pet than a harmless little mouse?

We prepared with the utmost caution so everything was fine.

I even stole a little piece of my brother's railway line!

This was to make a sort of frame for my mouse to run around;

And I put it inside a cardboard box that, luckily, I'd found.

I made little air-holes in the box, and put in a tiny dish

For my mouse to use for food and drink, whatever it might wish.

We saved-up our pocket-money  and on the appointed day

We set off for the pet-shop, which was quite a way away.

We very quickly discovered there were only two mice left.

Bella bagged the white one; I felt cross and bereft

For I had to have the brown one and I really wanted white.

But Bella always got her way so I didn't put up a fight.

The two mice stayed the night in a spare room at Bella's house

And I went home and dreamed about my purchase of a mouse.

But our dream was rudely shattered, as soon as morning came!

Bella's cat went ballistic and it was normally so tame.

It scratched to get inside the room and once it saw its prey

It gobbled up my brown mouse! The white one got away!

But the white one jumped inside a drawer and peed on laundry there!

And visitors were expected! The room had been cleaned with care!

When my mother heard the story she really blew her top!

I was called a 'bad influence' ! Our adventure was a flop!

The mouse had cost me a shilling, and I hadn't wanted the brown!

I felt that life was most unfair. It really got me down!

Bella bought a proper mouse-house for her wretched little creature!

It had a window made of glass as a very special feature!
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We're no longer 'naughty girls, well, not little ones at least,

And Bella lives in America, far away to the East.

But I've never quite forgiven her, let her never doubt it!

If only we could meet again and have a good laugh about it!




Another celebration of friendship here:
http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2008/08/92-electronic-barrier.html