Once Upon a Time, and Other Child-Verses

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

But the little Peachling danced gayly away,

With the millet-dumplings under his arm.

A dog leapt out of a cluster of pines:

"And what have you there, Little Peachling,

pray?"

"The best millet-dumplings in all Japan,

And I'm to the ogres' castle away."

"For one of your dumplings with you I'll go,

And the ogres' castle will help subdue."