Sarah Dowdney describes in a well-written tale.
With "The Babbling Teapot," to a little girl changed,
Mrs. Champney has well into Wonderland ranged.
Out of "Willie," who here "Gutta Percha" is named,
George Macdonald, an excellent story has framed,
And has shown how he finds life's troubles prove plastic,
Possessing a brain which his friends deem elastic.
In "The Princess" and "Goblin" he tries a new scheme,
And sweeps you along with his mystical theme;
But when she meets "Curdie" he now and then treads