When we were very young

by A. A. Milne

(Nanny isn’t certain, too.)

I looked behind the curtain, but he went so quickly—

Brownies never wait to say, “How do you do?”

They wriggle off at once because they’re all so tickly.

(Nanny says they’re tickly too.)

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INDEPENDENCE

I never did, I never did, I never did like “Now take care, dear!”

I never did, I never did, I never did want “Hold-my-hand”;