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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366006" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Witches of Little Begone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little Begone was a tiny place<br>Untouched by the fronds of time, <br>The cottages there, since Edward the third<br>Had lain in a valley sublime, <br>Wisteria climbed at the cottage walls<br>Where lilies and lilacs grew, <br>And over a fence, the witches stared, <br>In Little Begone there were two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They hated each other in Little Begone, <br>The youngest was Annabel Prank, <br>She'd stolen the seeds of a magical herb<br>From the garden of old Mother Skank, <br>So Skank put a spell on her garden that<br>Instead of the herbs, would grow<br>An army of huge zucchini's that<br>Would spread, right into the road.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Annabel tried to dig them out<br>But they seemed to grow and grow, <br>‘That will teach you to mess with me, '<br>Old Mother Skank had crowed.<br>So Annabel stormed back into the house<br>And put on her witches hat, <br>She turned Skank's cat to a cockerel, <br>And her cockerel into a cat! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Skank didn't know ‘til the cock miaowed<br>And the cat began to crow, <br>‘I've more spells than you know about, ' <br>She screamed from the path below, <br>She sent an army of ugly toads<br>To breed in her neighbour's pond, <br>While Annabel watched the zucchini's grow<br>And sank in a deep despond.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That night she summoned up Beelzebub<br>While Skank sat down to plot, <br>Set fire to her neighbour's chimney piece<br>And shattered the chimney pots, <br>So Skank called up an army of bats<br>To nest in her rival's eaves, <br>When Annabel ran, with bats in her hair<br>Skank followed her through the trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They fought, pulled hair, and scratched and screamed<br>‘Til the neighbour's all came out, <br>‘Isn't it time that we ducked these two, '<br>Said the blacksmith, Simon Stout.<br>They seized and carried them down to the pond<br>And they brought the ducking chair, <br>Then ducked them both, and they both came up<br>With pondweed in their hair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘If you don't behave in Little Begone<br>Begone is what you'll be, <br>We've had enough of your witch's tricks<br>Since fifteen forty three! '<br>Now Annabel sells zucchini's at <br>The market, by the bank, <br>And she always looks the other way<br>When she spots old Mother Skank! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">6 September 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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Untouched by the fronds of time, 
The cottages there, since Edward the third
Had lain in a valley sublime, 
Wisteria climbed at the cottage walls
Where lilies and lilacs grew, 
And over a fence, the witches stared, 
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